Crystal Niebla

San Diego

Infrastructure and Government Accountability Reporter at inewsource

Infrastructure & govt. accountability reporter for @inewsource via @report4america. Former: @longbeachpost | @voicewaveslb. She/They. Bilingüe. 💬

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Articles

New San Ysidro group seeks to manage its business district

1 week ago | timesofsandiego.com | Crystal Niebla

San Ysidro is in the process of getting new representation on how it uses local taxes collected from around 700 businesses in the area’s core. Business owners have formed an advisory committee after city of San Diego officials — without any public explanation — removed a previous nonprofit from overseeing the area’s business improvement district.
New San Ysidro group seeks to manage business district

1 week ago | inewsource.org | Crystal Niebla |Crystal Niebla Infrastructure

Why this matters Business improvement districts are city-designated areas where the business owners agree to tax themselves to fund activities and improvements. In some cases, districts manage hundreds of thousands of dollars in tax revenue. AI-assisted narration In this story we used an AI narration tool to help us meet our accessibility standards and provide our journalism to people who prefer to engage with an audio format.
How a decades-old state law can stop a trash fee for San Diegans

1 month ago | kpbs.org | Crystal Niebla

It could be as early as July. But here’s what needs to happen first. Councilmembers at their March 25 meeting will discuss new findings, including data sourced from the city’s public outreach. At that meeting, they could tweak rules around the process of submitting a valid protest, such as deciding which office property owners need to mail or drop off the protest.
San Diego trash fee could be stopped by a decades-old CA law

1 month ago | inewsource.org | Crystal Niebla |Crystal Niebla Infrastructure

Why this matters Proposition 218 is meant to ensure citizens are approving most taxes and charges on property owners. The city of San Diego’s proposed trash fee would be among the highest in Southern California. The city of San Diego may soon charge one of the highest trash fees in Southern California. But there is one way homeowners could stop it.
South Bay Archives - inewsource

1 month ago | inewsource.org | Teal Davis |Hannah Ramirez |Philip Salata |Crystal Niebla

Skip to content Posted inFor Your Information The San Diego County special election for District 1 supervisor has seven candidates vying to replace Nora Vargas.
Southeast San Diego's controversial footnote repealed

1 month ago | inewsource.org | Crystal Niebla |Crystal Niebla Infrastructure

Why this matters Residents say a controversial zoning rule that applies only to parts of southeast San Diego and nowhere else in the city amounts to discrimination. Southeast San Diegans are just one step away from seeing a controversial footnote in city zoning laws officially removed from the books. Councilmembers on Tuesday unanimously voted to remove the footnote that singled out certain southeastern neighborhoods.
National City votes to keep video public commenting

1 month ago | inewsource.org | Crystal Niebla |San Diego Documenters |Crystal Niebla Infrastructure

Why this matters State law requires public agencies to allow citizens to participate in meetings, but the COVID-19 pandemic upended in-person rules. Now that the pandemic is over, agencies are addressing how to handle virtual participation. National City officials last week shot down a proposal to eliminate people’s ability to participate virtually during live public meetings, raising concerns over potentially limiting accessibility.
City Has Yet to Disclose Origin of Zoning Law Targeting Southeast San Diego

2 months ago | timesofsandiego.com | Crystal Niebla

The San Diego City Council has unanimously voted to remove a controversial footnote from its zoning laws that singled out certain southeast neighborhoods. But officials have yet to answer how the rule landed in the city code five years ago. A Planning Department spokesperson told inewsource last week that staff had no updates nearly five months after launching an internal investigation to determine the origins of the footnote.
San Diego zoning rule rejected, but its origins remain a mystery

2 months ago | inewsource.org | Crystal Niebla |Crystal Niebla Infrastructure

Why this matters Residents say a controversial zoning rule that applies only to parts of southeast San Diego and nowhere else in the city amounts to discrimination. The San Diego City Council has unanimously voted to remove a controversial footnote from its zoning laws that singled out certain southeast neighborhoods. But officials have yet to answer how the rule landed in the city code five years ago.
San Diego Inches Closer to Deciding its Trash Pickup Fee

2 months ago | timesofsandiego.com | Crystal Niebla

San Diegans may soon learn how much they’ll be charged for trash pickup after years of not paying for it. The San Diego City Council’s Environment Committee will hear potential fee schedules at its meeting this week after a months-long effort to study the city’s waste management and gather public input from residents, according to city staff. The Environment Committee will discuss at its next meeting how much the city of San Diego may charge residents for trash pickup.