The City Council unanimously approved a complex scoring system and commitment to gather more feedback on projects from underserved areas
Following an earlier commitment to shifting some infrastructure spending toward low-income areas, the city’s new scoring system prioritizes areas with weak economic opportunity.
In addition to the scoring system, the new policy requires officials to conduct a citywide public outreach campaign every two years with what officials are calling “focused engagement” in low-income areas that have been neglected and underserved. City planning director Heidi Vonblum said that when studying decades of disparities regarding where infrastructure has been built in the city, officials discovered that residents from different neighborhoods haven’t participated equally in the decision-making process.The new process will give a larger role to nonprofits and social service agencies because city officials say low-income residents often trust such community-based organizations more than they trust the city.
The new scoring system is expected to have a significant impact because the council approved a new policy in August — Build Better San Diego — that allows fees collected from developers to be funneled into low-income areas for infrastructure.The plaintiffs argue that allowing developer money to be spent in neighborhoods far from the site of the development is unconstitutional and violates state laws.
It is illegal to spend developer fees that way if they were collected before the new policy. Those previously collected fees, which total more than $220 million citywide, must be spent in the neighborhoods where they were collected.For details, visit
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