naval broadway complex meetings

navybroadwaycomplex.com has gone live, and it has the upcoming public meeting schedule for feedback on their proposed project - the first one is saturday 9/27 at 10 am, 937 north harbor drive. as city beat points out today, it doesn't need to be all hotels, or maybe it does, unless you get out there and tell them otherwise. this is a defining area of downtown that currently looks like a pile of crap. the input the navy gets from us can impact how future generations of san diegans experience their waterfront. sure it's a big responsibility, but i think we can handle it. they'll probably ignore us anyway.

the fact that the public is only now getting to provide input on the project via a review of newly-released environmental documents is a shame. sure, the navy "owns" this part of san diego, but we, as taxpayers, support the navy and deserve input. and why exactly do naval administrative offices have to sit directly on the harborfront? there's not enough room on north island in coronado? better yet, put them up in kearny mesa where the county sends much of its work force. this is a spot that should have been BRAC'd long ago, but the navy realized the value of the land and is looking to maximize this via an exclusive arrangement with our favorite wall-off-the-harbor developer, papa bigot manchester (psst, dougie - you're sounding really defensive when you say your CFO's negative evaluation of your proposition 8 donation is "offensive to my family"). regardless, there has to be a better solution for this premier location than naval offices and more hotels. that won't happen unless we make our views known.