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Editor's note: The authors declined to identify the commissioner who was censured (Sandy Naranjo) and the state lawmaker backing changes at the Port (David Alvarez), so the names are noted here.
After 11 years of planning work, the Port of San Diego's future-looking guidebook that dictates what can and cannot be built on thousands of acres in and around San Diego Bay is done — pending sign off from a higher-ranking regulatory agency.
The Port Master Plan designates specific areas of San Diego Bay and the surrounding waterfront for a variety of uses including maritime, fishing, visitor-serving commercial, recreational, environmental conservation and protection, and navigation, a statement from the port reads.
San Diego Port Commissioners are expected to adopt a new policy rulebook for the special district that creates space for 3,910 new hotel rooms, 340,000 square feet of additional retail shops and restaurants, and 20 more acres of public access space
It’s a toss up which is more dysfunctional, the San Diego Association of Governments (SanDag) or the Unified San Diego Port Commission. Both affect Coronado in really awful ways, and