Opinion: With Riverwalk housing project, builders and city put cart before horse
Just 100 affordable units will supposedly begin construction in the next two years.
Re “$4B Riverwalk project begins construction” (Sept. 22): So the $4 billion Riverwalk project, which recently started construction, “warms [the mayor’s] YIMBY heart.” Really? The first phase consists of 930 market-price units. Just 100 affordable units will supposedly begin construction in the next two years. When will the remaining 330 affordable units required of the project be built?
Mayor Gloria touts again and again the gains developers are making to address the lack of housing in San Diego. But read carefully: market value. Medium- and low-income residents are increasingly forced out of the purchase and rental market. This does not warm my heart, nor the hearts of most San Diegans.
Judy Aboud
North Park
SANDAG’s cart doesn’t even have a horse
Re “SANDAG’s transportation plan is on the road to nowhere” (Sept. 28): Our elected officials are at it again. Act first and plan later. SANDAG’s now-questionable transportation plan is designed to get us out of our cars and onto hundreds of billions of dollars worth of new public transportation even though a wide area of the county would not be served by public transportation.
Will the trolley extensions go to the San Vincente Reservoir? Can I launch my 24-foot deckboat from the trolley? And the new state mandates banning gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles are designed to get us into electric vehicles. My deckboat weighs about 6,500 pounds. Can a Prius tow that much? Does the right hand know (or even care) what the left hand is doing?
Both of these horrendously expensive initiatives are loaded with problems that are unresolved. Full steam ahead. By the way, has anyone heard a current status on the multibillion-dollar fiasco called the bullet train?
Todd Goldberg
Rancho San Diego
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