Politics

Navy Broadway Complex Legal Dispute Continues

By Alison St John / Reporter

Published June 5, 2009 at 3:00 AM PDT

This story was published more than 14 years ago.

A community coalition refuses to give up its opposition of a major development on San Diego’s Bay front downtown.

Ian Trowbridge is co-chair of the Navy Broadway Complex Coalition. He says the group has filed a letter of intent to appeal a court decision that dismissed their call for more environmental review.

“The original environmental report was completed in 1992 ,” Trowbridge says, “ and put very simply Judge Prager seems to think nothing has changed in San Diego since 1990. We strongly disagree with the Judge’s decision”

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The group will appeal the Judge’s ruling, for several reasons: the significant increase in traffic since 1992, and the fact that the environmental report does not address the increase in greenhouse gases, also there is a known earthquake fault that may threaten the site.

Developer Doug Manchester is contracted to build a new headquarters for the Navy on the bay front property, as well as several high rise hotels.

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Alison St John currently serves as a general assignment reporter and occasionally co-hosts KPBS Midday Edition. She fell in love with KPBS Radio when she arrived in San Diego in 1985 and first heard NPR. She has been a voice on KPBS Radio since 1989, and has served as a news reporter for radio, TV and the web, as well as anchoring, hosting, producing and editing. Alison has reported on stories about North County and was based in the KPBS' North County Bureau. Alison covered the metro beat during the critical period of the San Diego City pension crisis, and the education beat while Alan Bersin was the controversial Superintendent of San Diego City School District. She covered health when the industry was converting to managed care and told welfare reform stories in the late 1990s when Clinton was “ending welfare as we know it.” She has covered land use issues extensively, looking at the challenges of meeting a growing population while preserving community character, and developing a better transportation system to meet environmental concerns. She has done many stories on the military in San Diego, and the series she edited on the challenges veterans face returning from active duty to civilian life won “Best of Show” from the San Diego Society of Professional Journalists. She occasionally hosts the KPBS Roundtable and KPBS Midday Edition. Alison has won awards from the San Diego Press Club, the Society of Professional Journalists, the Associated Press TV and Radio Association, and the California Golden Mike Awards. Alison was born in Tanzania, brought up in Scotland, and earned her degree in psychology and sociology from Durham University in England. Her postgraduate diploma is in student counseling. She worked in England, Nigeria, Switzerland, Belgium, India, and Japan before moving to the United States in 1981. She now lives in Oceanside and enjoys how her community is growing and changing.