Do our representatives on those regional entities – such as SANDAG and the Metropolitan Transit System – represent themselves and their personal opinions, or do they represent their city councils as a whole?
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Politics Report: The Tax Measure That SANDAG Requires But Will Not Speak Of
Republicans on SANDAG’s board want the agency to discuss putting up its own measure on the November ballot, rather than relying on a union-led effort that would face a lower approval threshold. Agency leadership is not interested.
Posted inPolitics
Politics Report: About That SANDAG Seat
When Will Rodriguez-Kennedy took over San Diego’s Democratic Party, he proposed setting the party’s electoral priorities around a straightforward metric: whether the race flips a seat on the board for SANDAG, the regional agency revamping the county’s transportation system, and all the infrastructure spending that goes with it. His “SANDAG Strategy” was one part a […]
Posted inOpinion
SANDAG Board Needs to Look Beyond Road Use Charge Dustup
San Diego faces a triple emergency: a climate crisis, a housing crisis, and an ecological crisis all at once. We need to change the way we’ve done things in this county, and we need to do it now.
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Gloria, SANDAG Settle on Airport-Transit Connection and a Regional Transit Hub Downtown
Regional leaders are no longer pursuing a massive regional transit center at the Navy’s NAVWAR campus in Old Town, and are instead looking at a two-piece solution that would finally bring the trolley to the airport.
Posted inGovernment
SANDAG Moving Closer to ‘Coming to Jesus’ Moment on Killed Projects
An outside audit urges SANDAG to identify which projects previously promised to voters will no longer be part of its long-term vision.
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Morning Report: SANDAG Closer to ID’ing Dead Projects
The San Diego Association of Governments doesn’t have enough money to build all the things it promised voters years ago. It overstated its revenue and underestimated costs — all of which has created a massive gap in the budget. Andrew Keatts reports the region’s primary planning agency is now in the process of drafting a […]
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Politics Report: Audit Day at SANDAG
The feuding and dysfunction that’s defined SANDAG for two years was on full display Friday, as the agency’s board accepted an audit into hiring and firing practices that’s erupted into a public standoff between management and the auditor tasked with scrutinizing their performance. SANDAG will hire another law firm to determine whether there was anything […]
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Politics Report: SANDAG Voted – So What Happens Now?
Seems like someone may sue SANDAG over its regional transportation plan. The Council president shock and why the Loyal don’t want to play at SDSU.
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Morning Report: SANDAG Head Wades Into Supes Race
Hasan Ikhrata has given a max donation to Terra Lawson-Remer in her bid to unseat Supervisor Kristin Gaspar, one of Ikhrata’s bosses in her role on the board for the San Diego Association of Governments, Jesse Marx reported Thursday. His donation is unusual. Directors of governmental agencies and city managers tend not to get involved […]
