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Fighting keep San Diego America’s Finest City

[Mark Kersey @markkersey]

Former supervisor Ron Roberts and I have some thoughts on the City scuttling its commitments to balance its budget

[SDUnitedCommunities @SDUnitedComm]

@TrpstrLeonOG Ever tried the military? 40 roommates…

[SDUnitedCommunities @SDUnitedComm]

@notistotny And the biggest waste of money too.

[SDUnitedCommunities @SDUnitedComm]

Bike lanes look empty because…they are empty.
Less than 1% of the populace use bike lanes and an even smaller number use them for primary transportation. They are literally a waste of space and money

[Sonia @yet_so_far]

Bike lanes look empty because bikes travel through them more efficiently than cars do through car lanes.

When have you ever seen a bunch of cycles stuck behind each other?

[SD Taxpayers @sdcta]

"If City Hall is serious about fiscal accountability, it should examine its own spending first. A new #SanDiego County Taxpayers Association report found that since fiscal year 2021, City Council offices have added 51 positions, a 47% staffing increase, bringing total council staffing to roughly 160 positions and the total council office budget to about $22.5 million. Those additions cost taxpayers nearly $10 million annually, even as San Diego’s population remained essentially flat."

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[SDUnitedCommunities @SDUnitedComm]

SDCTA analysis is essential to identifying, assessing and quantifying government economic impacts. Its independent research is critical to unraveling local government narratives to get to substantive facts and implanting real change and good governance

[SD Taxpayers @sdcta]

SD Taxpyers is an agent of change.

Our mission is to support the public, civic leaders and policymakers with independent research on economic and quality-of-life issues impacting #SanDiego taxpayers and ratepayers countywide.

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"The battle for San Diego’s future is under way, and there are increasing reasons to believe it will lead to a healthier, more responsive city government. San Diegans seem ready to change course after a frenzied 17-month stretch in which elected city leaders made it clear over and over that they expected local residents and businesses to pay much more in taxes and fees to make up for their years of excessive spending and their opposition to voter-backed reforms."

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[SDUnitedCommunities @SDUnitedComm]

@Atomic_Ferret True. Regular people have had it and are waking up. Not fast enough though

[SDUnitedCommunities @SDUnitedComm]

The microscopic minority YIMBY crowd don’t accurately represent millennial interests or needs. Millennial families overwhelmingly want small starter homes in new suburbs, the precise housing category that YIMBYs oppose. They use boomers as a strawman to distract and deceive.

[Amy Reichert @amyforsandiego]

YIMBYs call 800 sq ft boxes next to trolley tracks (no parking, no yard) “family homes.”
Now they’re saying Boomers must move out of their single-family houses because young people need their homes to raise families.
But YIMBYs (a fake political group backed by greedy corporations) goal is to bulldoze those exact single family homes for corporate-owned apartments with no parking and no backyards.
This is the “own nothing and be happy” agenda where corporations and government own all of the land and everyone else is at the mercy of landlords. YIMBYs use fake news organizations like @axios whose newsrooms are filled with socialists churning out socialist propaganda to write articles telling people who worked their whole lives to own a home “racist and selfish” and to move. These same Marxists had no problem with illegal immigration’s impact on the housing market and rent

[SDUnitedCommunities @SDUnitedComm]

@imthewalruz Current homeowners have paid substantially more in real dollars than you. And the time value of money means the value of the investments they made over 30 years dwarfs anything you contribute. Everything of value that exists in your community they built, not you.

[SDUnitedCommunities @SDUnitedComm]

@vb2616 YIMBYs keep promoting Austin as the proof for YIMBY apartment density policy success, when it was the boom in starter SFH building in the suburbs and outskirts that drove prices down. The millennial families stuck in apartments moved to cheap SFHs en mass and urban prices crashed

[SDUnitedCommunities @SDUnitedComm]

@imthewalruz Parasitism is people who think that homeowners who’ve paid 40 years of property taxes to build and maintain the existing infrastructure should be displaced by those who’ve done nothing and paid nothing.

[SDUnitedCommunities @SDUnitedComm]

@Deficit_Hawk @imthewalruz Density increases housing prices. In implementation, densification also removes existing lower cost housing from the market and replaces it with more expensive, smaller units.

[SDUnitedCommunities @SDUnitedComm]

@GailFriedt This is only true in an unbounded budgetary environment…and that never exists. The budgetary trade space is such that bike lanes are a bad choice in face of $7B+ (really about 12) in infrastructure backlog AND a structural deficit.
Gloria makes bad decisions

[SDUnitedCommunities @SDUnitedComm]

@imthewalruz Peak parasitism.
And we don’t discriminate with ageist bigotry.

[SDUnitedCommunities @SDUnitedComm]

@imthewalruz False.
Eliminating Prop 13 just removes any check on government overspending. The actual blocker is interest rates paired with the COVID driven overvaluation of housing. Both are decreasing.
The best approach is to build more suburban starter homes.

[SDUnitedCommunities @SDUnitedComm]

Economic illiteracy is real. Suburban land is cheaper and suburban development is substantially cheaper in building materials, techniques, labor, and realizes economies of scale

[Logan Bowers 🏗️ 🏘️ @loganb]

The fact that suburban development is cheaper is absurd (it takes far more infrastructure) and a deliberate policy choice and failure.

Enviros should be locking arms with YIMBYs to remove every barrier to allow cheap construction of 4bd urban apartments and townhomes

[SD Taxpayers @sdcta]

"In this episode of Coastlines to Cranes, Shandon Harbour sits down with Mark Kersey, President & CEO of the #SanDiego County Taxpayers Association and former San Diego City Councilmember, to talk about how tax measures, bond measures, and local budget decisions shape the future of construction and business in San Diego.

If public spending affects infrastructure, project delivery, and your bottom line, this conversation is worth your time."

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[SDUnitedCommunities @SDUnitedComm]

False.
The act of upzoning makes the land more expensive.
The actual restriction that creates the artificial land shortage and high land cost is the climate policy driven urban growth boundary. Anti-sprawl policies make housing more expensive…and density makes it worse

[Michael Wiebe @michael_wiebe]

The density premium as a metric for constrained zoning:

When zoning restricts the supply of high-density land, it becomes artificially expensive. We can measure this premium by comparing the land prices of high- and low-density land. When density premium >0, you need to upzone.

[SDUnitedCommunities @SDUnitedComm]

Using the IBA as political cover for your poor decision-making is dastardly

[Council President Joe LaCava @JoeLaCavaD1]

This week the Independent Budget Analyst (IBA) released the FY 2027 Councilmember Budget Modification Memoranda and the Recommended City Council Modifications to the Mayor’s Proposed FY 2027 Budget and Review of the May Revision. (1/4)

[SDUnitedCommunities @SDUnitedComm]

San Diegans are tired of Gloria’s crony based governance and the council’s abetting of his malfeasance.
Let down by our elected representatives, Common sense San Diegans are driving change in the courts and council chambers, and now at the ballot box.
VOTE THEM OUT!

[San Diego Union-Tribune Opinion @sdutOpinion]

Public makes disdain for City Hall plain in rejecting ‘second homes’ tax https://t.co/Aon0pUcfqw