The project’s developers sidestepped the city’s 30-foot coastal height limit approved by voters in 1972 through a state density bonus law to encourage affordable housing that apparently overrides local ordinances.
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Michael Smolens,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
15 May 2026
But the latest version of the proposal seemingly sidesteps those political and legal pitfalls.
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