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1 week ago | 
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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.
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1 month ago | 
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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.
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1 month ago | 
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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.
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1 month ago | 
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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.
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2 months ago | 
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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.
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2 months ago | 
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Why this matters The new fee will be the first one San Diego trash customers have had to pay, and officials say they’ll have a chance to shape it. San Diegans may soon learn how much they’ll be charged for trash pickup after years of not paying for it.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
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Why this matters Chula Vista officials say Measure P funding is essential to upgrade a variety of infrastructure projects. The city would have faced a gap in infrastructure funding if the measure didn't pass. Chula Vista voters overwhelmingly agreed to another decade of paying more taxes to continue funding public projects. Now, the city will begin working as early as next week on how to spend the money.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
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Why this matters Cities across San Diego County were hoping the ballot measures would bring additional revenue to help upgrade aging infrastructure. From Chula Vista to Oceanside, voters across the county decided on extra infrastructure funding during the November election. The results were a mixed bag.
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
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There’s change on the horizon yet again this year for Chula Vista, one of the county’s fastest-growing cities. The city issued permits for more than 1,600 new residential housing units last year. And in 2025, even more new townhomes, apartments and single-family units could come online on both the east and west sides of the city. Chula Vista’s expansion was fueled by eastward growth over the past four decades, particularly after the housing boom in the 1980s.
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Jan 8, 2025 | 
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A massive resort and convention center in Chula Vista will finally be debuting along the city’s shimmering bayfront this summer. The Port of San Diego and Chula Vista are putting their funds together to give the city’s bayfront a billion-dollar makeover that will redevelop 535 acres to include a new hotel and convention center, carveouts for more park space, a recreational vehicle resort and more. Here’s the status on those upcoming projects.
