Optional Tours
The mobile tours were a continuation of the breakout
sessions in Track #5.
Tour One: Planning for the Future: Otay Ranch
Otay Ranch is a 5,300-acre, pedestrian-friendly community planned
for approximately 9,200 homes over the next 30 years. Participants
heared about a ten-year planning process that used a “community
task force' as an integral component of a challenging entitlement
process and a village plan concept that elevates the status of
pedestrians through a variety of smart growth principles. With
the first phase now on the ground, participants learned what’s
changed since the planned communities of the 1980s and the difficulties
of achieving these changes in the 1990s.
Tour Two: Explore Downtown San Diego
Downtown San Diego has experienced an amazing rebirth as a result
of carefully planned and implemented redevelopment that has encouraged
downtown housing, infill development, and historic preservation.
Participants explored this urban waterfront community that today
provides easy-to-reach jobs and lifestyle choices in a pleasant,
safe environment.
Tour Three: San Diego’s Uptown and Mid-City Communities
Tour one of California’s most economically, ethnically,
and culturally diverse areas. Participants learned how smart growth
is transforming ten neighborhoods through collaborative ventures
of the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. Additionally participants
were able to see two landmark, mixed-use/civic projects: The Uptown
District and the City Heights Urban Village.
Tour Four: Transit-Oriented Development Projects (Mission Valley)
Participants learned how plans in the 1980s set forth a program
of transit-oriented development that addressed the multiple, sometimes-conflicting
goals of flood control, wetlands restoration, transportation planning,
urban development, and hillside preservation.
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