District 7 is one of the battleground City Council districts in this year’s elections.
The newly configured district is being contested by three main challengers: A Republican, a Democrat and an independent, and voters will have to decide who the best man is to deal with District 7’s problems.
Those issues include fire safety in a district that’s riddled with canyons; development along Mission Gorge Road, just north of Mission Valley, where developers want to build thousands of apartments; and meeting the diverse needs of a largely immigrant population in Linda Vista and Serra Mesa.
I spent a week in District 7 in April, getting to know the neighborhoods and the candidates. Then I teamed up with our media partners NBC 7 San Diego to film a quick video explainer on the race.
Here’s that video:
View more videos at: http://nbcsandiego.com.
My colleague, Liam Dillon also filmed a segment about District 7 on NBC San Diego’s Politically Speaking show, where he discussed the importance of the race to the political balance in the city council. Here’s that video:
View more videos at: http://nbcsandiego.com.
For even more information, be sure to check out my profiles of each of the three major candidates: Scott Sherman, Mat Kostrinsky and Rik Hauptfeld.
And, to learn more about the issues facing District 7, check out my stories on fire safety, development in Mission Gorge, and the issues facing Linda Vista.
Will Carless is an investigative reporter at Voice of San Diego currently focused on local education. You can reach him at will.carless@voiceofsandiego.org or 619.550.5670.
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