ReWild Mission Bay
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 […]
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 […]
This isn’t just a big week for the ReWild Mission Bay campaign, it’s THE week, and we need your help on several fronts – now. We need you at several key San Diego City Council meetings this week, including the council meeting ahead of the closed door session on Tuesday the 11th, and the Land […]
We’ve learned the San Diego City Council will consider a settlement of the long-standing Campland lawsuit against the city in closed session this Tuesday, June 11, at 10 a.m. In doing so, council could be unduly influenced to support the lengthy, five-year lease Campland is seeking in order to move their operations to De Anza […]