Located at the westernmost end of the U.S.-Mexico border where San Diego, California, meets Tijuana, Mexico, Friendship Park and Monument Mesa is an important bi-national cultural landscape. The park was established on August 18, 1971, in a ceremony that featured...
The city of San Diego took many months to implement new state rules on regulating sidewalk vendors. While other cities rapidly approved regulations that accommodated vendors as well as protected the public right of way, the San Diego City Council approved nothing and...
Visibility Areas for ‘streets’ is an obnoxious regulation created with public safety (“adequate sight distance”) as the reason. In urban environments, street corners help define community character – just look at wonderful corners...
The city deserves an Onion for its handling of the 101 Ash Street office building acquisition and its missteps in redesigning the interior for more city employees that were originally planned. The taxpayers face a huge funding bill to both buy and remodel the...
§113.0234 – Calculating Gross Floor Area This entire SDMC code section is about limitations. Limitations on the buildable area which in turn limit design options resulting in a reduced quality of architecture & spaces. An example of the nonsense of this code...
