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Why the Downtown Community Plan is a Crisis in Planning

The Downtown Community Plan will not provide enough parks.

Based on the proposed Downtown Community Plan, downtown San Diego will be over 400 acres short of park land, and about $8.5 billion short of needed funding:

There is not enough park land allotted for downtown residents
The plan is short 172 acres for residents.
There is not enough park land allotted for downtown workers and visitors
By 2030, downtown will be short an additional 249 acres for this group.
The financial planning for parks and recreation does not truly reflect the funding requirements

Detailed information can be
found in Friends of San Diego's
City Park Land Document

* This analysis is based on:

existing General Plan standards
the draft Downtown Community Plan (“Plan”) dated June 2005
information provided by the Park and Recreation Dept in their letter to CCDC dated 9/12/05
Centre City Public Facilities Financing Plan, dated 4/1/05 (used to determine cost of acquiring and developing parkland downtown, and the park demands from non-residential development)