On the flawed baseline assumptions in San Diego’s Climate Action Plan, which Gloria helped write:
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There was a line in the State of the City acknowledging that there is this issue about data and baselines. The Climate Action Plan has a five-year updating process that we are starting now that will look at this issue and make a determination on whether or not to do different baselines, different data, different metrics. When we wrote this plan back in 2014, 2015, we recognized that the environment would be changing no pun intended the circumstances around us would be changing and we’d need to update the plan to reflect that.
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New San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria’s place in city history dating back to 1850 is assured as its first openly gay mayor and first mayor of color. But, as he told the national news site Huffington Post, he wants to be known as a mayor measured by accomplishments “who happens to be Brown and gay.”
It’s early, but he’s eyeing big changes. In a Zoom interview with The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board on Thursday morning, his 42nd day in office as Gloria told us twice, he made it plain that in addition to focusing on multiple crises including COVID-19, climate change and a large city budget deficit that rivals the one in the Great Recession he expects to be a change agent on two huge issues.
San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria met with the The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board on Jan. 21, his 42nd day in office — he’s counting, not us — to discuss his plans and priorities involving housing, energy, transportation and more.
Watch the full interview on the video player or