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Residents Oppose Road Linking Mission Valley to Serra Mesa
The Mission Valley Planning Group (MVPG)is one of the wealthiest planning groups in the City of San Diego, and as such, has a lot of political power with the Planning Department staff, who take their lead from Jerry Sanders, our soon-to-be-ex-mayor (due to term limitations). In the February 2, 2012 issue of the Reader, Dorian Hargrove, in an article entitled "Let's Build an Even Bigger Nuisance" points out another area where the city's Development Services (the new name for the Planning Department) "..is willing to ignore its own rules about zoning.." in North Park, just as it has with the Serra Mesa Planning Group's (SMPG) stated opposition to the road connection to Phyllis Place. Money talks, yea SHOUTS, in the halls of all the City offices. The MVPG has been reluctant to acknowledge, even ignoring, any adjoining planning group's desires, when those desires conflict with the MVPG ideas. The SMPG's founding documents, set forth in 1975 (seven years before the founding of MVPG) stated that we wanted NO CONNECTION to Mission Valley, other than Mission Center Road, and we still feel that way. The Abbots Hill neighborhood is a nice, quiet, peaceful area, isolated by I-805 from the rest of Serra Mesa, with only 218 single-family houses and one church with 57 senior's apartments. This neighborhood will be destroyed by adding some 25,000 daily trips through it to access the I-805 freeway, just because the MVPG wanted the extra income from the thousands of residents to increase their power in the city. Typical of Jerry Sanders' rule, MONEY is the dominant factor in virtually any decision, whether it is a road connection that no one wants, or a Jack-in-the-Box that inflames a community, or a stadium that will be used only about a dozen days a year, and displaces many homes and businesses. In the Environmental Impact Report for Quarry Falls (Civita), it is pointed out that the couple of hundred homes fronting on the connecting roads will face a nightmare in the morning, trying to back out into a street on such a steep grade with more than a thousand cars on those streets, trying to access the freeway. Not to mention the smell from those thousands of automobile exhausts that will be polluting the atmosphere. But, NOTHING is as important as the MONEY for the planning group - - and the mayor.— February 4, 2012 7:55 p.m.