Nobody’s going to give San Diego County an award for park planning — we hope! — on its “Waterfront Park project,” which is more accurately described as the “subsidized garage project.” Grinning county officials recently cut the ribbon on a $36 million parking garage that will be free for county employees. With 640 spaces, the […]
A plan to convert parking lots under the Central Freeway near Duboce and Valencia Streets into a skate park and dog run is moving forward, but it won’t include basketball courts or a children’s playground as originally envisioned by residents. Because the city will have to lease the land from Caltrans, which owns and collects […]
Mansell Street, which runs through McLaren Park, is poised to get a two-way bikeway and a walking and jogging path separated from motor traffic under a plan approved by the Recreation and Parks Commission last week. Mansell is a wide roadway with no dedicated space for walking and biking, and its four traffic lanes are […]