Save Our Access Asks Appellate Court to Invalidate 2022 Ballot Measure That Lifted Height Limit in Midway District
By Jennifer van Grove / San Diego Union-Tribune / November 26, 2024
A year after the city appeared victorious, the battle of over building heights in San Diego’s Midway District wages on in appellate court.
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In recent weeks, environmental group Save Our Access and the city of San Diego have sparred in opening briefs filed with California’s Fourth District Court of Appeal, both arguing that their application of California’s Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, is correct.
At issue is the legality of the 2022, voter-approved ballot measure that lifted the 30-foot height limit for the entirety of the Midway District. The measure also cleared part of the regulatory way for the Midway Rising development team to remake the city’s 48-acre property along Sports Arena Boulevard.
Save Our Access, which sued successfully to invalidate a similar 2020 ballot measure, views the issue as an existential threat to public access in coastal areas.
Save Our Access Asks Appellate Court to Invalidate 2022 Ballot Measure That Lifted Height Limit in Midway District
By Jennifer van Grove / San Diego Union-Tribune / November 26, 2024
A year after the city appeared victorious, the battle of over building heights in San Diego’s Midway District wages on in appellate court.
[Please see original for important links]
In recent weeks, environmental group Save Our Access and the city of San Diego have sparred in opening briefs filed with California’s Fourth District Court of Appeal, both arguing that their application of California’s Environmental Quality Act, or CEQA, is correct.
At issue is the legality of the 2022, voter-approved ballot measure that lifted the 30-foot height limit for the entirety of the Midway District. The measure also cleared part of the regulatory way for the Midway Rising development team to remake the city’s 48-acre property along Sports Arena Boulevard.
Save Our Access, which sued successfully to invalidate a similar 2020 ballot measure, views the issue as an existential threat to public access in coastal areas.