Good afternoon.

Welcome to the Land Use and Housing Committee meeting of March 6th, 2025.

Our committee liaison, Natalie Kessler will go over instructions for today's meeting.

Thank you, Chair.

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Chair.

Councilmember Kim Pio.

Here.

Councilmember Moreno.

And Chair, Council President Pro Tem Lee.

Here.

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Deputy City Attorney Corinne Newfer with the City Attorney's Office.

Amy Lee with the independent budget analyst office, and Angeli Hoyos, our committee consultant.

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San Diego Humane Society just released its report today on the latest horse death at the Padres Rodeo that occurred this year.

But each of these horses had a bucking strap tied very tightly around their abdomen.

That's the entire purpose of the Sal Bronck event is to force them to buck and try to get rid of this painful device.

For them to claim that these horses were suffering no distress when the entire purpose of these devices is to cause distress.

And then it turns out that one of these horses was actually pregnant and died of a uterine uh artery rupture.

Is this extreme animal cruelty?

I'm calling on the new, we're calling on the the new members of the committee, um, Roel and Sean to step up and support the chair who's proposed uh banning this cruelty in the city of San Diego.

And we have a short video that um these are one of these horses is the horse that died.

Which one, but this is the event, and all of these horses are in distress.

So, yeah, the video is a little bit jumpy, but each of the horses in these events were subjected to animal growth in word distress.

Thank you.

Thank you.

Our next speaker is Wesley Morgan and Wesley.

You'll be followed by Cesar Javier, Parita Javier, John Mello, and then Jeffrey Hoyder.

Good afternoon, uh, Council President Partem and members of land use and housing committee.

I want to commend you on the 2025 land use and housing work plan presented last month, especially the focus on creating affordable and middle income housing opportunities.

Um, however, I think one key piece continues to be missing, and not just from that work plan, but nearly every affordable discussion we've had over the past few years, and that's fair housing.

Um this is just page one of the 249-page appendix in this current housing element.

It's the fair housing appendix, talks about integration, segregation patterns, it talks about meaningful actions that could address a lot of issues.

Um we talk a lot about affordable and workforce housing, but rarely discuss the context of where this housing is built or whether it's located in the very neighborhoods that offer the best pathways for economic mobility.

I think you're familiar with this map from California, CHTC and HUD.

Um it highlights areas in San Diego that are associated with positive economic educational and health benefits for low-income families.

Um the darkest blue areas are those that are the most exclusive, least affordable neighborhoods.

They have the best school, strongest infrastructure, most transit access, and the greatest climate resilience.

Yet they produce almost no affordable housing.

Um the four of you and your districts have done an excellent job of bringing affordable housing into your districts.

But um a lot of dark blue on the coastal areas and peninsula ocean beach.

Um these areas have had an inertia beach one ADU project, three affordable ADUs total, Peninsula 2 projects, two eight affordable ideas total, no complete communities projects.

Pacific Beach, five potential projects, La Jolla, one potential project, university three.

Um, all of District Five, one total ADU project with one total affordable ADU.

So just please continue to think about Thank you for that concluding statement.

Thank you.

This does conclude your time.

Caesar Javier, please approach the lectern and Perita Javier.

Good afternoon.

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