A Council committee voted 3-1 for proposal to soften the rules governing developer incentives near mass transit.
A controversial proposal to allow high-rise housing and backyard apartments on many more properties in San Diego was approved 3-1 Thursday by the City Council’s Land Use and Housing Committee.
Some critics also said San Diego could be on shaky legal ground if city officials stick with a plan not to conduct a comprehensive study of the proposal’s potential impacts on traffic and other environmental factors. Incentives that allow more units based on location would shift the required proximity to transit from half a mile to within 1 mile, but they would also change how that distance is gauged.
Geoff Hueter, leader of a community group called Neighbors for a Better San Diego, stressed that the state standard for transit development areas is half a mile and the federal standard a quarter mile. Councilmember Joe LaCava, who cast the lone “no” vote Thursday, said he is unsure whether he supports the proposal. But LaCava said he’s certain that it needs more analysis.
She also praised another element of the proposal that would change how distances from transit are measured. Instead of measuring distance as a crow flies, the new rules would consider feasible walking routes.
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