(Through 9.20.07)
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The San Diego Union-Tribune
Aguirre,
worried about water, wants halt on large projects
By Jennifer
Vigil
September 18, 2007
SAN
DIEGO – City Attorney Michael Aguirre called yesterday for a temporary
moratorium on massive developments in San Diego, as he sought new ground in his
struggle with Mayor Jerry Sanders over the city's access to water.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070918-9999-1m18water.html
Thirsty state
could lose key supply of water
Ruling may complicate north-south transfers
By Michael
Gardner
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE
September 17, 2007
For years, environmentalists have promoted water transfers as a cost-effective,
fish-friendly alternative to new dams.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070917-9999-1n17water.html
Governor's
call to special session no guarantee of action
By Laura Kurtzman and Samantha Young
September 16, 2007
SACRAMENTO – After a year of gridlock, lawmakers say they want to reach deals
with Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to reform health care and improve the state's
water supply.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070916-0856-ca-specialsession.html
Sanders,
Aguirre spar over water woes
By
Jennifer Vigil
September 14, 2007
SAN DIEGO – Mayor Jerry Sanders and City Attorney Michael Aguirre continued
their clash yesterday, this time over how to maintain San Diego's water supply
as the region confronts a drought and the consequences of a landmark legal
decision.
http://cfx.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070914/news_1m14tap.html
City plans to
raise developer fees
No warning given, home builders say
By Lola
Sherman
September 14, 2007
Oceanside officials are proposing nearly tripling the fee developers pay in lieu
of building affordable housing in the city.
http://cfx.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070914/news_1mi14fees.html
Housing
decline continues
Home sales and prices fall, mortgages tighter; but other counties have it worse
By Roger
Showley
September 13, 2007
San Diego County housing prices continued their slide in August as home sales
dropped to a 15-year low, DataQuick Information Systems reported yesterday.
http://cfx.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070913/news_1b13housing.html
City may hike
developer fee
Home builders
say they weren't given a warning
By Lola Sherman
September 12, 2007
Oceanside officials are proposing nearly tripling the fee developers pay in
lieu of building affordable housing in the city.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20070912-9999-1mc12fees.html
Multiyear
shortage of water discussed
Agencies concerned with recent ruling
By Mike Lee
September 5, 2007
Water managers warned yesterday that San Diego County is on the verge of
multiyear shortages comparable to those caused by the early 1990s drought.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070905/news_1m5short.html
200 gather to
discuss redeveloping City Hall
Meeting is first for 'ambitious' project
By Jeanette
Steele
September 7, 2007
DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO – Calling it an “ambitious” and “difficult” project, about
200 people from the building industry attended the first meeting on a
public-private partnership to redevelop San Diego's City Hall yesterday.
http://cfx.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070907/news_7m7civic.html
Don't wallop
California for delta smelt
September 5, 2007
Never mind the drought. The biggest threat to San Diego's water supply is now
the delta smelt.
On behalf of this endangered three-inch fish inhabiting waters of the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, a federal judge has restricted for at least a year
as much as a third of the water distributed from the delta to 25 million
Californians. Three million of them are San Diegans.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/op-ed/editorial1/20070905-9999-lz1ed5top.html
Schwarzenegger
administration promotes new dams as delta fix
By
Samantha Young
ASSOCIATED PRESS
September 5, 2007
SACRAMENTO – The Schwarzenegger administration on Wednesday dusted off a failed
dam proposal as a way to shore up California water supplies in light of a
federal judge's ruling limiting shipments from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070905-1829-ca-troubleddelta.html
Water and our
region's economy
By
Robert B. Horsman
September 4, 2007
San Diego County faces a challenge that could have far-reaching impacts on its
$150 billion economy and the quality of life for its 3 million residents.
Weather-related, legal and regulatory factors are combining to threaten our
water supply like never before.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070904/news_mz1e4horsman.html
Ruling to cut
into water flow to region
Judge's order will protect fish, but cause shortages
By Michael
Gardner
COPLEY NEWS SERVICE
September 1, 2007
SACRAMENTO – A federal judge yesterday ordered a dramatic slowdown in pumping
water to Southern California – an unprecedented decision aimed at protecting a
tiny fish in the Sacramento delta, but one that will have widespread economic
and political repercussions across the state.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070901/news_1n1water.html
Suit over
endangered delta smelt should be resolved Friday By Juliana Barbassa
ASSOCIATED
PRESS
August 31, 2007
FRESNO – Attorneys for California's Department of Water Resources and the U.S.
Bureau of Reclamation told a judge Friday that pumps should continue extracting
water from the San Joaquin-Sacramento River delta until scientists can fully
evaluate their effect on threatened fish.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070831-1415-ca-troubleddelta.html
Out of sites
Few city-owned properties are suitable for affordable housing
By Lori
Weisberg
August 26, 2007
After combing through hundreds of city-owned properties, with high hopes of
finding some suitable acreage for building housing affordable to low-and
middle-income households, San Diego officials have pretty much come up
empty-handed.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070826/news_lz1h26sites.html
Schwarzenegger, Feinstein describe delta in crisis, urge fixes
ASSOCIATED PRESS
August 21, 2007
LOS ANGELES – State and federal officials must collaborate to restore the
delta's ecosystem and preserve water deliveries to farmers and cities, Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger and U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein said Tuesday in calling the
crisis one of the state's most pressing challenges.
The two leaders appeared together at a summit in Los Angeles, underscoring the
growing attention being paid to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, the heart of
the state's water-delivery system.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20070821-1842-ca-troubleddelta.html
A bungled
probe
Sanders lacking leadership on Sunroad scandal
August 14,
2007
Just when we thought it could get no worse, Mayor Jerry Sanders' bungling of the
Sunroad scandal is now marked by an internal probe that was full of holes and
glaring inconsistencies, according to documents obtained by the Union-Tribune.
Fresh doubts about the credibility of the investigation come as Sanders appears
to be overcome by inaction in the face of overwhelming incompetence by officials
of his own administration.
http://cfx.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20070814/news_lz1ed14top.html
City flings
red tape at fire-wary Del Cerro
July 18, 2007
An especially treacherous fire season lies ahead, and Dr. Charles Jacobson is
more nervous than he has been in years.
By now, brush should have been cleared from 100 feet of slope below his property
line, and below 20 neighboring properties overlooking Lake Murray in Del Cerro
Heights.
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/braun/20070718-9999-1m18braun.html
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North County Times
Local new
homes sales plunge in July
September 19, 2007
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Sales of new homes in San Diego County plummeted by almost 50 percent in July
from the same month a year ago, the second sharpest decline among California
metropolitan areas, according to a study released Wednesday.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/09/20/business/news/20_41_529_19_07.txt
State wants
new homes off grid
September 18, 2007
State regulators Monday proposed an aggressive statewide energy strategy that
would push developers to build homes and shopping centers so efficient they
would require no electricity or natural gas from California's major utilities.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/09/18/news/top_stories/1_1_359_18_07.txt
Water crisis
subject of television ads
September 18, 2007
Saying the public seems unaware that California is teetering on the edge of a
water crisis, a water-lobbying group started a rare television-advertising blitz
Monday talking "massive water shortages" statewide.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/09/18/news/top_stories/1_4_409_18_07.txt\
Governor's
call to special session no guarantee of action
After a year of gridlock, lawmakers say they want to reach deals with Gov.
Arnold Schwarzenegger to reform health care and improve the state's water
supply.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/09/17/news/state/18_11_229_16_07.txt
A session of
special importance
Our view: Governor gives Legislature detention to focus efforts on health care,
water crises
Some wary and weary Californians may be breathing a sigh of relief now that the
state's lawmakers have ended their regular yearly session. But any celebration
would be premature. The special session Gov. Schwarzenegger called on Tuesday
will extend the Legislature's ability to make matters worse, and their sights
are set on topics of surpassing importance. What they do could determine where
we get our health care and water for decades to come.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/09/17/opinion/editorials/151507190729.txt
Water panel
adopts guidelines for delta fixes
A
committee of regional water leaders Monday said the state needs to build some
sort of canal to separate endangered fish and environmental concerns from
Southern California's now-threatened water supplies.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/09/11/news/sandiego/0_41_199_11_07.txt
Contingency
plans drawn up for possible SoCal water rationing
Contingency plans currently being drawn up could force Southern California water
officials to order rationing next year.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/09/07/news/state/19_46_009_6_07.txt
A watery
wake-up call
Our
view: Drying up of delta supply must prompt conservation and market-pricing
If you think your water rates are too high, just wait. If you think you've been
asked to make do with less water before, well, there too you're in for an
unpleasant surprise. Late Friday evening in a Sacramento court, a federal judge
decided a tiny fish needs the water we depend on even more than we do.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/09/05/opinion/editorials/0_24_529_5_07.txt
Water issue no
mirage
Last week's ruling by a federal judge severely limiting the transfer of water
from Northern California to local taps is causing another in a periodic wave of
calls for more conservation of water in order to ... well, to accomplish what
isn't exactly clear. Use less water, of course, but to what end?
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/09/06/opinion/trageser/19_27_309_5_07.txt
Southern
California works on emergency plan
Days after a judge issued a ruling that could create Southern California's worst
water shortages since the last great drought in 1991, the region's main water
supplier said it was racing to create an emergency plan to divvy up water if
rationing is necessary in 2008.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/09/05/news/sandiego/5_01_179_4_07.txt
Judge's ruling
could cut water supplies by 30 percent
An "unprecedented" environmental ruling issued late Friday by a federal court
judge could create Southern California's worst water shortages since the state's
last widespread drought more than 15 years ago, water officials said.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/09/01/news/top_stories/22_09_448_31_07.txt
Endangered
fish threaten water supply
A federal judge is scheduled to weigh arguments Tuesday in a case pitting an
endangered fish against Southern California's main water supply, and the region
may be lucky to lose only a third of its water.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/08/20/news/top_stories/1_01_498_19_07.txt
Building fee
begins to build roads
Transportation money isn't exactly pouring in from new development these days,
thanks to Riverside County's slumping housing market.
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/08/18/news/californian/23_08_568_17_07.txt
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California Real Estate Journal
On Two Coasts,
Renters Squeezed By Lack of Affordable Housing
SEPTEMBER 24, 2007
By DAVID CRARY AND RACHEL KONRAD
This isn't how Simon and Jennifer Morris envisioned married life - sharing a
charity-subsidized suite with four other hard-up families, abiding by a curfew
and other rules that make them feel they are back in high school.
http://carealestatejournal.com/newswire/index.cfm?sid=&tkn=&eid=888866&evid=1
Public Housing
Develops Program to Stabilize Budget
CEO Elizabeth
Morris to Retire Jan. 15
September 24,
2007
By MICHELLE MOWAD
The head of the San Diego Housing Commission, which helps provide affordable
housing to 80,000 residents, announced her retirement earlier this month.
Elizabeth “Betsy” C. Morris, president and chief executive officer, said she
will retire Jan. 15, but not before transforming the agency to lessen its
dependence on federal funds.
http://sdbj.com/industry_article.asp?aID=89004059.3285486.1530438.8675457.9677785.952&aID2=117717
Commercial
Construction Projects Faced With Rising Cost of Materials
Aggregate, Aluminum, Concrete, Drywall and Steel Prices Are Up
September 17,
2007
By MICHELLE MOWAD
Though residential construction is slowing in San Diego County, the cost of
nonresidential construction is increasing due to the rising cost of materials.
http://sdbj.com/industry_article.asp?aID=95440943.4289774.1527929.7217768.1885324.190&aID2=117524
Anderson
Forecast: ‘Near-Recession Experience’
September 12, 2007
Economists putting together the UCLA Anderson Forecast said Sept. 12 that the
U.S. economy is near recession.
http://sdbj.com/industry_article.asp?aID=33562317.9766962.1526083.876228.23567502.187&aID2=117382
Dip in
Construction Employment an Exception to the Regional Rule
State’s
Population Growth Rate Slows Below National Level
August 20,
2007
The non-farm payroll employment in the San Diego-Carlsbad-San Marcos metro area
was “essentially stagnant” during the past year, according to Kenneth Simonson,
chief economist of the Associated General Contractors of America, in Arlington,
Va.
http://www.sdbj.com/industry_article_pay.asp?aID=68749237.8112451.1515956.2007061.6245473.013&aID2=116603
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