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Plan For Chula Vista Bay Front Project Approved

By Alison St John / Reporter
Published May 18, 2010 at 1:57 PM PDT
This story was published more than 14 years ago.
There was a joint meeting of the San Diego Port District and the City Council of Chula Vista, to approve the environmental impact report of the Chula Vista Bayfront Master Plan on May 18, 2010. The 550 acre Bayfront plan includes 230 acres of public parks and open space as well as as hotels, condominiums and commercial space. It is projected to generate 11 million a year in tax revenues.
There was a joint meeting of the San Diego Port District and the City Council of Chula Vista, to approve the environmental impact report of the Chula Vista Bayfront Master Plan on May 18, 2010. The 550 acre Bayfront plan includes 230 acres of public parks and open space as well as as hotels, condominiums and commercial space. It is projected to generate 11 million a year in tax revenues.
Plan For Chula Vista Bay Front Project Approved
The San Diego Port Commission and Chula Vista City Council have approved a Master Plan that would transform 550 acres of bay front land in the South Bay. Chula Vista City Hall was packed for the public hearing, which represented the culmination of years of negotiation and compromise.

The San Diego Port Commission and Chula Vista City Council have approved a Master Plan that would transform 550 acres of bay front land in the South Bay.

Chula Vista City Hall was packed for the public hearing, which represented the culmination of years of negotiation and compromise. The Master Plan had the support of the environmental community and labor groups, as well as the Chamber of Commerce and the business community.

The plan includes three new hotels and a resort, condominiums, shops and restaurants. But it also has more than 200 acres of open space and public parks.

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The Chula Vista Nature Center and a National Wildlife Refuge will be protected by a buffer zone, and the densest development will happen around the existing Marina and further south.

Some Chula Vista residents were still worried the proposed development would deny them access to the bay. But most of those testifying were in favor of the plan to maximize the potential of one of the last undeveloped portions of San Diego Bay.

The plan will still need the go ahead from the California Coastal Commission next year. But the agreements already hammered out with stakeholders mean there will likely be less opposition than there was for the City of San Diego’s North Embarcadero Plan. That plan was rejected by the Coastal Commission last month and has gone back to the drawing board.

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Alison St John
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.
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