The "People's Ordinance" has long required San Diego to provide free trash pickup to single-family homes. A proposal to change that law could be headed for the November ballot.
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There is no recent precedent for the mass turnover at City Hall last week, as Mayor Todd Gloria and Councilmembers Raul Campillo, Sean Elo-Rivera, Joe LaCava, Marni von Wilpert and Stephen Whitburn took office. But the six lawmakers all Democrats shouldn’t ease into their responsibilities. In his speech Thursday, Gloria vowed to fix “the small issues that past leaders have struggled to resolve” in his first 100 days issues like “scooters and vacation rentals” so he can “focus on the biggest problems facing our city.” Yes, please.
On housing, Californians will never make substantial progress unless dominant Democrats accept the need to change environmental and zoning rules that give NIMBYs and construction unions easy ways to block new projects they don’t like. Progress is also unlikely if Democrats continue to see subsidized housing that helps only a relative handful of residents as a broad solution. Prefab homes and dormitory-style housing have allevi