Propositions M and D
Unfortunately, San Diego may never get a chance to adopt the concurrency measures referred to by John Koenig (“A Lesson Worth Heeding In San Diego,” Sept. 9) if a phony growth-management proposition facing the voters this November passes.
Proposition M and its county equivalent, Proposition D, are thinly disguised attempts by the building industry to prevent the City Council and Board of Supervisors from establishing concurrency.
Among the key services these measures exempt from being provided concurrent with need are schools, police, jails, courts, libraries, recreation centers, parks, water and solid-waste disposal. This is particularly threatening because both propositions require a two-thirds council or supervisorial majority to mend their inadequacies.
These propositions make a mockery of local government’s efforts to insure a sensible growth plan for San Diego. The final indignity is that many of the developers who are M and D’s key sponsors are not even based in San Diego.
S.D. KISTLER
Mira Mesa
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