With a sweeping blueprint for its future, San Diego acknowledges the lasting imprint of segregation — and seeks to reverse it. The changes, scheduled for a City Council vote on Tuesday, would be the first major amendments to the city’s general plan since 2008.
From DAVID GARRICK | David.Garrick@sduniontribune.com | The San Diego Union-Tribune; UPDATED: July 21, 2024 at 7:07 a.m. Excerpt:
San Diego is considering major changes to the city’s blueprint for future growth that would tackle for the first time preparing the city for climate change and reversing significant racial segregation.
The changes, which are scheduled for a City Council vote on Tuesday, would be the first major amendments to the city’s general plan since the anti-sprawl City of Villages plan was adopted in 2008. [For information about the July 23, 2PM, City Council meeting, access the agenda and supporting information at: https://sandiego.hylandcloud.com/211agendaonlinecouncil]
Called Blueprint SD, the amended general plan aims to fight climate change by steering new housing into transit-friendly areas.
But perhaps more significantly, it would seek to reverse decades of racial and ethnic segregation that began with redlining and got reinforced by single-family zoning policies that remain mostly in place today.
If adopted, Blueprint SD would be the first time a San Diego general plan has acknowledged the continuing impacts of redlining — racially discriminatory mortgage lending practices and restrictive housing covenants that kept people of color out of White neighborhoods.
It would also be the first time city officials have blamed local segregation on city zoning policies, initially by reinforcing redlining and then by essentially taking its place after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled redlining unenforceable in 1948.
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