SAN DIEGO
A new plan aims to slowly transform car-centric El Cajon Boulevard into a series of pedestrian-friendly neighborhood hubs with mid-rise housing, restaurants, urban plazas, parks, art displays and event spaces.
Called BLVD 2020, the plan says there is potential to create a regional destination and a thriving cultural hub on the four-mile roadway, which passes through University Heights, North Park, Normal Heights, Kensington, Talmadge and City Heights.
More than a fifth of San Diego residents live within 5 miles of El Cajon Boulevard, including many in the city’s most ethnically distinct neighborhoods such as Little Saigon and many areas of City Heights.
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San Diego leaders are eying a massive “green growth” initiative that includes bustling new train stations and high-speed rail to usher in a boom in dense housing construction from Chula Vista to downtown San Diego and beyond.
This urban strategy is being sold as a win for the economy as well as the environment in theory, encouraging hundreds of thousands of residents in coming decades to swap fossil-fuel-burning car trips for walking, biking and riding transit.
“This is an opportunity for job creation,” San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria told the Union-Tribune editorial board in January. “It’s an opportunity for meeting our climate goals.”