Bill Anderson, Director of City Planning and Community Investment in the Californian city of San Diego, presents the history of planning for the city of San Diego. He explores the early plans and the rapid growth that the area has experienced. The nature of San Diego, it’s biodiversity and bi-national metro area with Tijuana, Mexico,provide unique difficulties for planning. The issues the coastal city has with water supply, a desire to increase sustainable power sources and reduce greenhouse gas emissions are echoed in cities across Australia.
Bill describes the recent development of good planning policy in San Diego, the difficulties of inadequate funding, the problem of public satisfaction and some victories, such as the Multiple Species Conservation Plan. The presentation concludes with a discussion of the strategies and features of the current draft General Plan for San Diego.
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