ONE LOT ≠ 8 BUILDINGS Totaling 16 UNITS
Located: Chicago St. Between Baker & Gesner ZERO PARKING PROVIDED
Contact Your Councilwomen. EXPLAIN: #1-Project Not Allowed by Current Code #2-Adjacent to Protected Canyon #3-Zero Parking Loophole Does Not Apply
Stop the 16-Unit Development at 3249 Chicago Street
- Email or Call Councilwoman Dr. Jennifer Campbell
- Phone: 619-236-6622
- Email: jennifercampbell@sandiego.gov
- Copy Staff: vmmolina@sandiego.gov ; lgloria@sandiego.gov ; cmunson@sandiego.gov
- Email or Call Mayor Todd Gloria
- Phone: 619-236-6330
- Email: mayortoddgloria@sandiego.gov
- Copy Staff: Mvalk@sandiego.gov
What's Happening
(Project Number 1131512)
Protect Our Neighborhood — Protect Bay Park
A developer is proposing to build 16 residential units at 3249 Chicago Street and Aeronca Avenue, between Crete Street and Cessna Street, right in the heart of our quiet single-family hillside neighborhood of Bay Park. No other lot on our hillside has more than 3 structures, and this proposed lot would have 8.
What you Can Do:
Email Bay Park's Councilwomen, San Diego Major and Staff Explaining:
- Request that this project be sent back through Long Range Planning (Project Number: 1131512) and that its not a "By-Right" project as its located withing a Airport Land Use Compatibility Overlay Zone
- Remind them that the ADU law has been removed, this project is not allowed under current zoning, and it presents serious parking, traffic, safety, and environmental concerns.
- Encourage them to require the brush management plan, coastal sage study, and Process 3 review before any consideration.
- ZERO PARKING PROVIDED BY DEVELOPER AND MAJOR SAFTEY CONCERN: The transit stop used to justify density bonuses is not fully constructed, has no parking, and is not accessible from this property.
🏡 Zoning, Environmental, Parking and Safety Concerns.
- The property backs up to a protected canyon and City-owned open space and lies within a brush management zone with native vegetation, a high fire severity, and a geologic hazard zone with slopes over 25%.
- A Fire Department–approved brush management plan and a coastal sage scrub study are required before any development.
- Much of the lot is unbuildable and should be subject to a 100-foot coastal sage setback and which should lower the allowable buildable square footage being proposed by developer.
- This type of density is unsafe next to a very high fire zone canyon.
- The property is in a City-owned clear zone, where this type of dense development is expressly disallowed.
⚠️ Parking and Traffic Concerns
- Zero on-site parking is planned. All 16 units’ residents, guests, and service vehicles would have to park along Chicago Street and surrounding blocks, one of the main through street connecting Claremont Drive/Baker Street to Morena Blvd.
- This could add 60–80 additional cars per day trying to parallel park along Chicago and the surrounding streets which are already tight one lane each way streets, creating congestion, chaos, and increased risk of accidents.
- Many residents, including children and seniors, walk along this street, making street safety a serious concern.
- The project is being considered “grandfathered in” because the application was submitted before recent San Diego TPA regulations changed pedestrian access rules to focus on sidewalk-accessible distance rather than straight-line distance.
This makes the claimed density bonus using this transit stop inaccurate and misleading.
Zoning Info:
- The site is zoned RS-1-7, intended to preserve single-family neighborhood character while allowing reasonable use of property.
💬 What You Can Do
We need your voice to protect Bay Park:
- Contact City Councilwoman Dr. Jennifer Campbell
- Phone: 619-236-6622
- Email: jennifercampbell@sandiego.gov
- Copy Staff: vmmolina@sandiego.gov ; lgloria@sandiego.gov ; cmunson@sandiego.gov
- Contact Mayor Todd Gloria
- Phone: 619-236-6330
- Email: mayortoddgloria@sandiego.gov
- Copy Staff: Mvalk@sandiego.gov
- Request that this project be sent back through Long Range Planning (Project Number: 1131512) and that its not a "By-Right" project as its located withing a Airport Land Use Compatibility Overlay Zone
- Remind them that the ADU law has been removed, this project is not allowed under current zoning, and it presents serious parking, traffic, safety, and environmental concerns.
- Encourage them to require the brush management plan, coastal sage study, and Process 3 review before any consideration.
Together, we can stop this unsafe, out-of-scale, and parking-deficient development and protect the safety, livability, and character of our Bay Park neighborhood.
Let's go! Save BP!