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What’s Next - Schedule for Package A
January/February 2026
As you know, the city is fast-tracking Package A through a series of hearings and staff recommendations without a robust community interaction or collaboration.
The current timeline is as follows
- Wednesday, January 14, 2026 – Land Use & Housing Committee (Recommendation)
- January/February TBD 2026 – City Council (Adoption)
We encourage you to stay engaged and informed. Your attendance, voice, and letters could make a difference. Together, we can try to ensure that historic preservation remains central to San Diego’s progress rather than lost in the name of it.
What’s at stake in Package A
The City’s proposals directly threaten San Diego’s preservation program and the places you love that make San Diego thrive. Use these points as your own, or personalize.
🔴 De Novo
A de novo process would allow the City Council to rehear historic designation cases from scratch—overriding the determinations of the Historical Resources Board (HRB), a body of trained experts in history, architecture, and archaeology. This politicizes what should remain a fact-based, impartial process.
- It gives developers but not advocates a second bite at the apple
- It creates unnecessary costs, delays, and uncertainty
- It weakens public trust in the preservation program
🔴 Erosion of Historic District Protections
Neighborhoods—especially Ocean Beach's Cottage Emerging District and The Asian Thematic district will be stripped of its current protections opening it up for the City's destructive Complete Community program, along with pending districts, all are left vulnerable in this misguided initiative.
🔴 Misplaced Focus on New Construction
The plan prioritizes streamlining new construction under the banner of “preservation.” This is fundamentally incompatible with preservation policy nationwide. Adaptive reuse, infill, and design guidelines are what is appropriate. Bulldozing protections to clear the way for demolition is not only shortsighted, but it also goes directly against the city’s climate action goals.
View the City’s amended Preservation and Progress Package A (City of San Diego, October 1, 2025).
Take Action Now
The Land Use & Housing Committee of the City Council of the City Of San Diego
Wednesday, January 14, 2025, 9am
City Administration Building
Council Chambers – 12th Floor
202 C Street, San Diego, CA 92101
Send your letters and emails to Council Administration
Email CouncilCommittee@sandiego.gov
Subject Preservation and Progress Package A / Land Use & Housing Committee
** Have you sent your postcards into your city councilperson yet? If not, Please take this important action.
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