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CACC Hosts Reception with SDSU President Elliot Hirshman on September 14
Dr. Elliot Hirshman
The CACC will have a meet-and-greet reception with SDSU's new President, Dr. Elliot Hirshman at 6:00 p.m. immediately prior to the 7:00 meeting on Wednesday, September 14 at the College-Rolando Library. Desserts and hors d'oeurves from San Diego Desserts will be served. President Hirshman will speak at the beginning of the meeting.
Dr. Hirshman became the eighth president of San Diego State University, effective July 1, 2011. As Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Dr. Hirshman was responsible for the delivery of the academic program, including instruction, research, and academic support services; enrollment management, including admissions and financial aid; and the intercollegiate athletics program. Prior to that, Dr. Hirshman served as chief research officer at George Washington University in Washington, D.C. and chaired the departments of psychology at George Washington and the University of Colorado at Denver. He began his academic career as a psychology professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
He earned his undergraduate degree summa cum laude in economics and mathematics from Yale and his Ph.D. in cognitive psychology at UCLA.
Dr. Hirshman is married to Jeri Hirshman. His daughter, Wendy, attends Muhlenberg College in Pennsylvania. His son, Nathan, will be a freshman at the University of Virginia this fall.
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Redistricting Process Places College Area
in New City Council District 9
The City of San Diego Redistricting Commission completed its work with the adoption of their final map on August 25. The Commission not only had to redraw City Council lines to conform to new U.S. Census data but also had to create a ninth district, per a ballot initiative approved by voters.
As it turns out, the College Area is in the new Ninth District. The northern border of the new district is Interstate 8 and it includes the following community planning areas: College Area, part of Eastern Area (Rolando and El Cerrito), Keninsgton-Talmadge, City Heights, and part of Southeastern San Diego (including the communities of Mt. Hope, Mountain View and Southcrest). The culturally-diverse district is just over 50% Latino, making it the City's second Latino-influence district (along with District 8). A copy of the final redistricting plan is available to view as a PDF in the document list on the left side of this newsletter. The maps can be found on pages 25-27 of the document.
At the July CACC meeting, the board made several recommendations to the Redistricting Commission. The top priorities were to keep College East, College West, all of El Cerrito (north and south of El Cajon Boulevard) and Rolando in the same district, all of which were ultimately adopted by the Commission.
The new boundaries go into effect with the 2012 City Council elections. Currently the College Area is in District 7, which also includes Allied Gardens, Grantville, Del Cerro, San Carlos, Lake Murray, Tierrasanta, Rolando, Rolando Park, Redwood Village, Oak Park, and part of City Heights. Our current City Councilmember, Marti Emerald, recently moved from Tierrasanta to College View Estates and announced plans to run for election to the new Ninth District seat.
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Code Enforcement and Nuisance Rental
Property (CENRP) Committee Update
By Ann Cottrell, Chair
The Rooming House Ordinance (RHO), which prohibits rentals with over two rental agreements in RS (residential single-unit) zones, became fully effective this May. Passed in 2008, the ordinance exempted existing rooming houses for three years; that grandfathering period has now ended and any rooming house is now forbidden in RS zones. CENRP's primary activity at the moment is working closely with Neighborhood Code Compliance Department (NCCD) on enforcing the RHO. CENRP has identified the most likely RHO violations and is providing those addresses, with supporting evidence, to the NCCD so it may begin investigating these properties. Many of the most obvious offenders are houses offered for student rental by businesses which own/manage a large number of student rental properties in the College Area.
Until the RHO became fully implemented, CENRP worked with NCCD to identify and investigate rental properties in violation of the Residential High Occupancy Permit (RHOP) ordinance. The RHOP requires properties (rental or owner occupied) with six or more adults in the house, to have a high occupancy permit. This may only be purchased if there is sufficient legal off-street parking for the number of adults minus one. This limits many rental properties to no more than 5 adults (or more without cars) because of insufficient parking. This is progressing, but not as rapidly as hoped; as we all know, the city is seriously understaffed, and it is difficult to prove occupancy. Several owners/managers have applied for and obtained RHOPs, others have reduced the number of tenants to five. And in a number of cases civil penalties have been issued, some very large.
SDSU's Good Neighbor Program is also working with College Area neighbors to educated students about responsibilities inherent in living in a residential community. CENRP helped design and pay for the very informative brochure GNP produced for his purpose.
CENRP has also identified the problem of unregulated sober living/residential treatment homes with no more than six residents. Unlike larger residential treatment homes which must be licensed and thus are regulated, the smaller facilities do not require a permit and are not regulated. We are aware that Long Beach has passed ordinances regulating such use of homes in residential neighborhoods. At CENRP's request, Councilmember Marti Emerald convened a task force to explore the possibility of regulating such houses in San Diego. The task force on this topic was convened and completed its work over a year ago. We understand that the task force report is being circulated by review by various City departments prior to being finalized and sent to the Land Use and Housing Committee. We urge the City Council to address this issue soon, as we are getting reports of rental homes used as unregulated sober living/residential treatment facilities in the College Area.
The next CENRP Committee meeting will be Wednesday, September 28 at 6:30 p.m. at the Faith Presbyterian Church, Room 3, 5075 Campanile Drive at Montezuma Road.
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City Council Recognizes SDSU Associated Students Good Neighbor Program
The San Diego City Council proclaimed July 26, 2011 as the SDSU Associated Students Good Neighbor Program Day. Shown above are CACC President Doug Case, A.S. Executive Director Dan Cornthwaite, A.S. Vice President for External Affairs Krista Parker, City Councilmember Marti Emerald, A.S. Vice President for University Affairs Mina Azim, and A.S. Executive Vice President Darin Ruiz.
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CACC to Show Appreciation to Mid-City Police At the July meeting, the CACC voted to show our appreciation to the Mid-City Division of the San Diego Police Department for the tremendous work they have done within our community. We will miss the good relations we have with Mid-City, but it looks like Eastern Division is taking their example seriously and will continue programs such as the College Car. It has been decided to show our appreciation with goodies ... enough to feed over 100 people. Offerings should be finger food that does not require either heating or refrigeration because it may have to sit around for awhile for all shifts to enjoy. Our Community Relations Officer, Jenny Hall, has suggested Friday, September 9 as appreciation day. She will be on duty at the Mid-City police substation, 4310 Landis Street in City Heights, all day. Individuals or neighborhood groups can deliver their treats anytime during the day. The San Diego City Council will be presenting a resolution to the Mid-City Police Division and the San Diego State University Police in recognition of the College Car program. The resolution will be presented at the City Council meeting at 10:00 a.m. on Tuesday, September 13. |
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