Mission Bay started its life as a 4,500 acre estuary complex at the mouth of the San Diego River. In the 1940s, 50s, and 60s, the City of San Diego (along with state and federal agencies) set out to transform this “useless swamp” into the recreational destination we see today. At the time, the importance of […]
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Our project teams spent the past few months reviewing public input, working with stakeholders, and gathering scientific feedback on the eight initial wetlands restoration alternatives released last fall (check them out here). We used all of this information, plus guidance from the Coastal Commission and the Mission Bay Park Master Plan, to create three updated final […]
11/29/16 Update: You can email your comments directly to the City via info@deanzarevitalizationplan.com, if you don’t want to participate in their full online engagement activity here. For suggestions on what to say, keep scrolling. The City of San Diego has a once in a lifetime chance to protect wetlands in Mission Bay when they “revitalize” De Anza […]
Earlier this year, we held two public workshops to gather ideas for how we can restore wetlands in northeast Mission Bay. Your ideas were used to create draft plans for protecting these threatened habitats, which were shared with our community on September 27, 2016. Download the initial draft alternatives here, and then go here to share […]
Curious what ReWild Mission Bay is all about? Take a look: Thank you to Jordan Beane for this wonderful video! Music by Montauk Point Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Workshop #2 Report now available!
Our report from Workshop #2 (held June 14, 2016) is available under “Resources“. You can download meeting materials, comment cards, and a summary of the results (including key themes that emerged from the discussion). Our next workshop will be in early Fall. Sign up to be notified when a date is set.
About a year into the ReWild Mission Bay Feasibility Study, the City of San Diego launched the De Anza Revitalization Plan to amend the Mission Bay Park Master Plan and decide once and for all what to do with De Anza Point. The ReWild project team and De Anza City planners have partnered closely together ever […]
By Jaime Chambers, originally aired 6/14/16 on Fox5 San Diego SAN DIEGO — The last residents of the De Anza Cove trailer park have been ordered out of their homes, and now city officials are trying to decide what to do with 170 acres of wetlands in the northeast corner of Mission Bay. The Audubon Society is vying for a […]
Two additional reports are now available on the ReWild Mission Bay “Resources” section: Existing Conditions Report: This report investigates the following question: What are the current access, recreation, land forms, wildlife, water quality, and other conditions like in the ReWild Mission Bay Planning Area? These “existing conditions” (along with information gleaned from the Historical Ecology […]
“Iconic Mission Bay course could be transformed as part of wetlands effort” by David Garrick, published on 4/2/16 by the San Diego Union Tribune SAN DIEGO — Mission Bay Golf Course, known for being the county’s only lighted course and the place where Tiger Woods won a Junior World title, might soon be on the […]