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The Chula Vista City Council has adopted a policy that prohibits council members from using city resources to communicate with residents who live outside of their respective districts.
The policy, adopted by a 4-0 vote on June 15, establishes the ground rules for communicating with residents via newsletters, emails and printed material. Council members are permitted to use city funds and equipment to connect with constituents who reside in each of their districts.
Council members are free to send unsolicited communications to people outside of their district, but may not use city resources to do so, according to the policy. If a council member does send a communication, they must identify the district they represent.
Chula Vista’s Millenia development is pivoting from retail to office space.
Because of poor market conditions that saw a number of brick-and-mortar stores close in Chula Vista last year, Meridian Development plans to change what was originally anticipated to be retail space to office space.
“What we are seeing in the shift of this plan, and because market conditions change, is really a shift from service industry jobs to professional jobs,” said Director of Development Eric Crockett.
“Instead of having a focus on hotels and retail, this is now starting to shift to what we’ve all wanted to see, which is a major employment center, a professional office, and professional jobs in the South Bay,” he said.
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The developers of eastern Chula Vista’s Millenia project want to reduce the amount of non-residential space in the development, which is supposed to be a major revenue-generator for the city.
Scaling back the development’s commercial and hotel space is expected to reduce Millenia’s annual tax revenues by $4.5 million, according to a staff report from Chula Vista.
The City Council is scheduled to vote Tuesday on the proposed changes to Millenia’s development plan.
The current acre development plan includes a maximum of 3.4 million square feet of commercial space and 500 hotel rooms. Building that would generate $2.8 million in annual tax revenues by 2028 and $10 million by 2048.
Bucking other LGBTQ leaders who have beseeched California Governor Gavin Newsom to name gay Equality California Executive Director Rick Chavez Zbur as the state s next attorney general, members of a Bay Area group for out Asians and Pacific Islanders have thrown their support behind Assemblyman Rob Bonta (D-Oakland), a straight ally.
In a letter signed by Gay Asian Pacific Alliance Chair Michael Nguyen, GAPA s political action committee notified Newsom that it emphatically endorses and supports Bonta being named the next attorney general for the Golden State. Nguyen noted Bonta s being the Legislature s first member of Filipino descent and his background of being a Yale Law School graduate and former deputy city attorney in San Francisco.