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After some heavy modifications to UC San Diego’s request, the San Diego City Council voted May 18 to lift certain deed restrictions on 43 acres where the university plans development of a hotel, wellness center and other east campus projects.
Projects on two parcels east of Interstate 5 include extended-stay lodging and a conference center for UC San Diego Health patients, visiting university faculty and academic symposiums; intergenerational housing and a wellness center for retired university faculty; a technology and life-science research space; a wellness center for UC patients and the community; and translational research clinical space.
Barry Slotten, a manager in the city’s Real Estate Assets Department, said during the online meeting that the deed restrictions on the land were “precluding UCSD from implementing [these] projects, which are listed in the 2018 Long Range Development Plan ... which are necessary to accommodate the needs of the growing student body and research and academic health system.” The projects would be delivered through a public-private partnership model, he said.