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Lisa Mortensen was sent a holiday greeting recently from Congressmember Scott Peters. Here's her holiday greeting back and response.
By Lisa Mortensen
Hello Congressman Peters:
Happy New Year and thank you for your kind email of holiday wishes and appreciation of my community activism and dialogue with your office. Your email was timely since I was going to reach out to your office regarding the NAVWAR project.
A brief recap on the background of this project which became known to the citizens of San Diego was in 2021. At that time the Navy did a public engagement campaign asking for feedback and a selection of one of 4 different project designs. The community overwhelmingly chose the least detrimental plan which was plan 1. The reason why I say 'least detrimental' was because countywide, citizens spoke out in opposition to this high-density, high-rise megalopolis project which would wall-off access for those coming westbound on highway 8 or northbound/southbound on highway 5 to the airport and beaches.
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During the spring and summer of 2021, the Navy orchestrated public outreach and feedback with virtual meetings that were well-attended. There were many cogent suggestions such as this government land be set aside for military housing and public park with 'non-profit' oriented retail. We expected the Navy to provide affordable military housing for its active-duty personnel. We also questioned the Navy's reasoning of having private high-rise residential and hotel use surrounding a top security building which seemed to be a major breach to secure such a highly sensitive facility. Which is why we believed the Navy should have considered our options to rebuild a state-of-the-art top-security building to house the SPAWAR systems and secure the surrounding area of the building with government housing.
Lisa Mortensen was sent a holiday greeting recently from Congressmember Scott Peters. Here's her holiday greeting back and response.
By Lisa Mortensen
Hello Congressman Peters:
Happy New Year and thank you for your kind email of holiday wishes and appreciation of my community activism and dialogue with your office. Your email was timely since I was going to reach out to your office regarding the NAVWAR project.
A brief recap on the background of this project which became known to the citizens of San Diego was in 2021. At that time the Navy did a public engagement campaign asking for feedback and a selection of one of 4 different project designs. The community overwhelmingly chose the least detrimental plan which was plan 1. The reason why I say 'least detrimental' was because countywide, citizens spoke out in opposition to this high-density, high-rise megalopolis project which would wall-off access for those coming westbound on highway 8 or northbound/southbound on highway 5 to the airport and beaches.
During the spring and summer of 2021, the Navy orchestrated public outreach and feedback with virtual meetings that were well-attended. There were many cogent suggestions such as this government land be set aside for military housing and public park with 'non-profit' oriented retail. We expected the Navy to provide affordable military housing for its active-duty personnel. We also questioned the Navy's reasoning of having private high-rise residential and hotel use surrounding a top security building which seemed to be a major breach to secure such a highly sensitive facility. Which is why we believed the Navy should have considered our options to rebuild a state-of-the-art top-security building to house the SPAWAR systems and secure the surrounding area of the building with government housing.