(San Diego) County to be asked to squeeze in 107K new dwellings

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Thursday, February 3, 2005

County to be asked to squeeze in 107K new dwellings

By: MARK WALKER - Staff Writer
North County Times

San Diego County and its 18 cities are about to be asked to make room for 107,391 more homes over the next five years, more than 42,000 of which are supposed to be for people with low incomes.

Mandated by the state to create land zoning to accommodate that many more homes, the board of the San Diego Association of Governments is expected to act on the plan when it meets Feb. 25.

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And while the directive requires the county and cities to plan for that many new homes, there is no requirement that any actually be built. "It's kind of like an honor system," Poway Mayor Mickey Cafagna said Wednesday. "I don't think all are going to get built."

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A very-low-income family is classified as a family of four with an annual household income of $34,250 or less, while the county's median income for a family of four is $63,400. A low-income family of four is considered to have an annual income of no more than $54,800.

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To make the plan a little more palatable for some cities, it allows cities to exchange credit for low-income dwellings among one another in recognition of available land and demographics. The plan suggests older shopping centers are ripe for conversion to multifamily housing for lower-income residents.

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Contact staff writer Mark Walker at [phone] or [e-mail].


http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2005/02/03/news/top_stories/23_12_472_2_05.txt

[livetohike]

1. They could start with all the strip malls

that have had vacant space for the four years I have lived here (North county). Instead, the developers continue to build more strip malls and industrial parks.

[HuckleB]

2. Well, there is a lot of vacant infill space in the area.

It's better than continuing to sprawl.