ReWild Mission Bay
We wanted to extend a special thanks to Councilmember Vivian Moreno (D-8), chair of the Land Use and Housing Committee, who was the lone, courageous vote of dissent in the committee’s 3-1 decision on June 12 to approve the proposed De Anza lease recommendations in northeast Mission Bay. Let Councilmember Moreno know you appreciate her vote by sending […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 13, 2019 San Diego, Calif. – Members of the ReWild Mission Bay coalition continue to note their disappointment with the City of San Diego’s Land Use and Housing Committee recommendation to extend the lease of the current Campland site in the northeast corner of Mission Bay by five years, thereby precluding […]
By Chris Redfern From remarks before the Land Use and Housing Committee meeting on June 12, 2019. On behalf of my organization and the ReWild Mission Bay coalition, we urge you to NOT approve these lease agreements, and instead slow this process down and provide the community and stakeholders the opportunity to participate in decisions […]
By Tommy Hough From remarks prepared for testimony before the Land Use and Housing Committee meeting on June 12, 2019. In politics there are often no easy options, but that’s also part of the reason we step up as leaders. And while the dilemmas we face are often complicated with shades of gray, we shouldn’t […]
By Jim Peugh The last several years have seen a deluge of news about infrastructure in San Diego. Whether it’s the future of the stadium site in Mission Valley, the extension of the San Diego Trolley blue line to UCSD, or the push among urbanists to revolutionize housing in our city, refining our development footprint […]
By John Heatherington I was fortunate to have been born in San Diego, and raised on the eastern shoreline of Mission Bay. When I was a child, east Mission Bay appeared to me as a vast, wildly beautiful salt marsh. Millions of birds of every description seemed to fill the sky, from tiny terns to […]
As you might have seen in Jim Peugh’s piece in Times of San Diego this weekend, ReWild Mission Bay’s feasibility study demonstrates that a plan to increase the volume of wetlands in the northeast corner of Mission Bay is not only feasible, but is the most cost-effective option for the city when sea level rise and […]
We partnered with UCSD Natural Reserve System and the Mission Bay High School Eco Club to give a C3 Breakfast Dialogue. C3 has chosen Mission Bay as one of its 2019 focus points, and they’re partnering with us to push for the ReWild Mission Bay Feasibility Study Wildest alternative to be fully analyzed in the […]
Check out our partners at Beautiful PB talking about the wonderful connections that have been made with Pacific Beach businesses and community members in this Lifestyles San Diego TV episode. Kristen Victor and Steve Springer highlight the great connection between Kendall-Frost Marsh, and the wetland restoration that Mission Bay needs and we’re all fighting for, […]
Check out this guest blog about our awesome Love Your Wetlands Day. Written by Megan Flaherty, San Diego Audubon Restoration Program Manager photos by Craig Chaddock ‘Love Your Wetlands Day’ – the annual open house event at the Kendall-Frost Marsh Reserve – offers a rare opportunity to explore Mission Bay’s largest remaining wetland, and to […]