SAN DIEGO (KUSI) — California state Sen. Catherine Blakespear is throwing her weight against a controversial high-rise proposed for Pacific Beach .
The lawmaker sent a letter to the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development this week urging them to jettison the 23-story housing complex and hotel pitched for Turquoise Street, calling it an “inappropriate use of the state’s housing laws.”
The building would add 213 new housing units, only 10 of which are set aside for low-income tenants — an inclusion Blakespear argues runs afoul of other state building laws.
“There are more than 100 hotel rooms and just 10 affordable housing units, so it’s really substantially not an affordable housing project,” she said.
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