The San Diego City Council Tuesday approved a 60-year lease with a developer to renovate the long-empty 101 Ash Street building into hundreds of affordable housing units.
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San Diego City Council members have voted to relocate a few dozen on-street parking spaces in Hillcrest to make way for new bike lanes. The project was once the source of intense controversy.
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KPBS Midday EditionDespite President Trump's attacks on the Affordable Care Act, Covered California is alive and well as it enters the open enrollment season.
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KPBS Midday EditionThe hepatitis A outbreak has brought San Diego's lack of low-income housing into the spotlight. Now questions are being raised about the effectiveness of the San Diego Housing Commission.
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SDG&E keeps asking to bill its customers for the remaining 2007 wildfire costs. The city of San Diego has had 2 1/2 years to create rules for short-term rentals but nothing has been decided yet. And the new homeless campground near downtown San Diego has unexpected tenants: children.
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An 80,000-square-foot transit center is scheduled to open to the public Friday at the Westfield UTC mall in University City.
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San Diego's fifth open streets event CiclosDias takes place downtown on Sunday, with plans for a preview demonstration of forthcoming protected bike lanes.
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San Diego's annual Climate Action Plan monitoring report shows the city is still ahead of schedule in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. But there is little indication city policies are contributing to the success.
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KPBS Midday EditionTiny homes will be on display at an event on Friday and Saturday at Market Creek Plaza at Euclid and Market. On Friday, workshops will also be held on tiny homes and modular construction. The event is part of San Diego Architecture and Design Month or Archtoberfest.
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A San Diego City Council hearing on a proposed project that would remove some hotel rooms at the 64-year-old Town & Country Resort and Convention Center in exchange for residential units was postponed Wednesday for a second time.
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The only San Diego County residents going to the polls this Nov. 7 live in Poway and will vote on Measure A, a citizens' initiative paid for by a developer who wants to build condos on his golf course.
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