Early Monday, Lisa Halverstadt learned that the City Council was not going to vote on the proposed settlement over 101 Ash St. It serves us right to expect a climax in San Diego’s long -standing political affairs.
Maybe the settlement didn’t have the five votes it needed, maybe some new information materialized, or maybe the mayor’s explanation that they heard the public’s call that it took more time to process the terms of the agreement was all there too. That last explanation seems to be the most exciting, because it would mark the first time in the city’s history that procedural considerations are not only vague for some important differences of opinion.
Nevertheless, former Mayor Kevin Faulconer jumped on the bench Thursday to say he was glad that Mayor Todd Gloria has decided to delay the vote for a month until the public has enough time to fully absorb the specifics of a settlement that would have completed several city lawsuits. went on others, and led to the acquisition of two massive pieces of city real estate for a City Hall redevelopment that had not been planned and would not be in the next month. The public will also have ample time to express the opinion of the city attorney about the settlement, or legal and policy reasons.
“I think you have to make sure that any proposed settlement will be beneficial to the city, benefit to taxpayers and not something that should be rushed,” he said. “I think we’ll hear more about that in a month.”
Clearly, now that we have made a difficult decision, brave to not rush the issue, ignore the screaming hordes of the pro-rush caucus, we should not rush to say whether the agreement was truly beneficial for the city and taxpayers or not. It is important now that we have time.
Brief CAP Opposition from the Cap’s Top Champion
Back in Gloria’s first stint in the mayor’s office – in an interim position that didn’t really exist – Nicole Capretz led the charge in her administration for what became her landmark achievement during that time, although it didn’t pass up to the Faulconer. On the same subject : NBC Sports Washington premieres Off the Ice: Best of Capitals 2021-22. office: city Climate Action Plan.
The city adopted a plan that said it would half its carbon footprint by 2035 by, among other things, transitioning to 100 percent renewable energy and getting half of those who live near transit to bike, walk or take transit to work by the same year. San Diego basked in national praise from the New York Times and elsewhere.
This week, though, Capretz – who now runs a nonprofit group that pushes San Diego and other cities to do more on climate plans – came out as an opponent of an updated version of the same Climate Action Plan that is currently being tried by Gloria. . Although the plan raises its goal – the city will now reach “clean zero” by 2035, when greenhouse emission levels are the same as levels absorbed by the environment (or new technologies that remove carbon from the atmosphere) – Capretz and his group urge a “no” vote from the Council committee, because the city did not have a timeline and cost estimates for its commitment. They finally boarded the ship when city staff agreed to provide them in February.
Still, it’s interesting to hear Capretz, probably the city’s top salesperson for the climate plan, claim that proponents have made mistakes with the first plan by not setting clear costs and time requirements for each of the policies included in it.
“We didn’t insist on the implementation plan for the first Climate Action Plan,” he told MacKenzie Elmer. “We won’t make that mistake again.”
