The San Diego City Council approved sweeping changes Sept. 13 to the city's 42 neighborhood planning groups in an effort to diversify their membership and make them better organized, but critics call the changes a developer-driven effort to squelch public opposition to dense housing projects.
S.D. council passes reforms that may make community planning groups more diverse but possibly less powerful
The San Diego City Council approved sweeping changes Sept. 13 to the city's 42 neighborhood planning groups in an effort to diversify their membership and make them better organized, but critics call the changes a developer-driven effort to squelch public opposition to dense housing projects.