Take 10 Minutes to Protect San Diego’s Historic Neighborhoods
The City of San Diego is updating its Historic Preservation Plan—and early signs point to loosening protections that safeguard our historic homes and neighborhoods.
This is your chance to make your voice heard. Take 10 minutes to share your concerns and help ensure San Diego’s history and community character aren’t erased.
We’ve included a draft template you can copy or adapt when submitting your comments.
Follow this link, then use the steps below.
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List your Affiliation as:
Preserve Greater Golden HillPaste or adapt this language in the “Issue” section:
San Diego’s aggressive density development program, Complete Communities, is in direct conflict with historic preservation, and this group must put guardrails in place.For example, in Golden Hill, three historic Craftsman homes and their ADUs on A Street (between 29th and 30th)—all owned by low-income Latino neighbors—were destroyed to make way for a 180-unit luxury apartment building. These homes were originally determined to be historic, but during the pandemic, they were redesignated as non-historic, sold as a group to a developer, and demolished.
This is a clear example of what should not happen in a community. Our community plan includes specific recommendations for development and infill that align with our infrastructure and historic character. Streamlining processes should not reward developers who disregard the community plan and the community itself.Paste or adapt this language in the “Solutions” section:
Honor community planning group plans—and the groups themselves. Golden Hill’s plan already includes thoughtful guidelines for infill and development that address these issues. A single, citywide plan would steamroll this carefully developed framework that balances progress with preservation.
Protect and complete San Diego’s proposed historic districts, including the one proposed for Golden Hill. Focus on true preservation: adaptive reuse, infill, and design guidelines—not fast-tracking demolition in the name of new construction.
Preserving San Diego’s historic homes and neighborhoods is vital to our city’s identity, affordability, and sustainability. Many of these homes are naturally occurring affordable housing.