ReWild Mission Bay
We wanted to say thank you again for joining us at San Diego City Hall on Monday for the council vote on new RV camping leases in the northeast corner of Mission Bay. We also want to say thank you again to all of our amazing coalition supporters, including Citizens Coordinate for Century III (C3), […]
Sometimes you put your best foot forward, and you still don’t get the result you want. Unfortunately, that’s what happened on Monday at City Hall, as San Diego City Council voted to approve new and extended Campland leases by a 6-3 vote. The new leases will take effect July 1, sidelining wetland restoration in Mission […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 25, 2019 San Diego, Calif. – In a 6-3 vote, San Diego City Council voted to approve two new leases for Campland, an RV camping vendor that leases public property in the northeast corner of Mission Bay, despite persistent concerns about water quality, climate resiliency, transparency, accountability, and the necessity of […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 21, 2019 San Diego, Calif. – Two San Diego-based environmental organizations, San Diego Coastkeeper and Climate Action Campaign, have signed onto the ReWild Mission Bay letter of opposition to a pair of proposed leases for Campland On the Bay in the northeast corner of Mission Bay. Approval of the leases will […]
On Monday, the full San Diego City Council will consider two lease proposals in the northeast corner of Mission Bay that could preclude meaningful wetland restoration for years to come. If there was a single day the ReWild Mission Bay campaign needed your presence more than any other, this Monday is it. We need you beginning at 12:30 […]
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 […]
We are in the midst of a busy week of activism at ReWild Mission Bay, and we know we’ve asked a lot from you the last few weeks – far more than ever before in the history of the ReWild campaign. And you’ve responded, again and again, because the future of Mission Bay is important […]