POINT LOMA – A region-wide grassroots movement opposing local government efforts to construct higher and denser affordable housing closer to mass transit sites has begun.
At a town hall on Nov. 1 at the Point Loma/Hervey Branch Library, like-minded civic groups citywide gathered to begin organizing against the city’s ongoing efforts to increase housing density in residential neighborhoods.
Sponsored by Save Our Access, a Peninsula group opposing over-densification and supporting coastal access, the meeting’s purpose was to launch a united community front. That effort seeks to oppose the current state and local government strategy, embodied in recently-passed SB 79, of amending local zoning laws to build denser and more affordable housing near existing and planned mass-transit routes…