{"id":226651,"date":"2025-09-14T17:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T17:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/226651\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T17:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T17:24:14","slug":"why-do-planners-want-to-make-city-a-charmless-clone-of-l-a-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/226651\/","title":{"rendered":"Why do planners want to make city a charmless clone of L.A.? \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Re \u201cSan Diego wants 17,000 new homes in Clairemont\u201d (Sept. 7):\u00a0After reading about the proposal envisioned by the Planning Commission, I couldn\u2019t help but see the contradiction of adding so many more people to the area while at the same time eliminating traffic lanes on busy streets and replacing them with bike lanes. I would guess that if you ask the people of Clairemont whether they want more density with fewer traffic lanes, they would undoubtedly reject the idea.<\/p>\n<p>Why are \u201ccity planners\u201d so bent on turning San Diego into another Los Angeles, complete with gridlock and a loss of community charm?<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mark Heinze, Bay Park<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Re \u201cSan Diego wants 17,000 new homes in Clairemont\u201d (Sept. 7):\u00a0After reading about the proposal envisioned by the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":226652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,7281,1269,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-226651","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-letters-to-the-editor","12":"tag-opinion","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115203818399308737","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=226651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}