06.03.2025 23.30
Hello San Diego!
We are proud to have been part of the conversation at City Council on March 5th. Encanto won a victory against the Bonus ADUs that are popping up over our neighborhood precisely because of our semi-rural RS1-2 neighborhood, and the fact that most of our RS1-7 streets are still not developed fully with sidewalks.
City Council and the Planning Department assured us that no Bonus ADU project could go through and move forward if it did not have a continuous pedestrian pathway from the site all the way to the major transit stop. We at Neighbors for Encanto believe this covers the vast majority of our Bonus ADU projects that we are fighting against.
Our petition is to stop more than 2. And we are well on our way. Anything over 2 is no longer keeping with the Single Family zoning of the RS zoning - and should be considered Multi Family zoning, and so should have to go through some type of discretionary review and approval - including approval of the neighbors within a reasonable radius of the project.
The City Council is going to be discussing a motion to repeal the Bonus ADU in some of the RS zones in 90 days AND they are going to be discussing a reform of the program within the other RS zones at the same time.
We need your help!!!
1. Please spread this petition to as many people as you can.
Please invite them and come to our 2pm Sunday meetings at Encanto Rec Center Park (inside if in-climate weather)
2. Please go here: bonusadubadforsd.com/order-shirts-signage to order your t-shirts and yard signs or banners.
3. Please consider donating to our GoFundMe www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-encanto-against-bonus-adu-complexes?qid=d96f7a02b51e0fc20b5b6dbe0987ed31 in order to help us keep moving and mobilizing more neighbors to join this fight. ***Please note donations on this site - Open Petition - go to the site host and keep this petition platform free to use - they do not come back to us here in San Diego.***
4. If you'd like your funds to go directly to ADU legal battles, the Chollas Valley Community Planning Group has retained a lawyer, here is their GoFundMe: www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-uplift-chollas-valley-communities?qid=d96f7a02b51e0fc20b5b6dbe0987ed31 And the neighbors in Clairmont are also raising funds to fight a 12 unit ADU project there - here is their contribution fund: www.gofundme.com/f/stand-with-shoshoni-ave-against-overdevelopment
As glad as we are that we have protections for again what we believe is the vast majority of our neighborhood, we are still fighting to protect the other neighborhoods in the rest of District 4 AND in other hard hit San Diego communities. We will be protesting at Imperial and Euclid this Saturday at 3pm. If you'd like to join us, you're welcome to bring your own signs, or use some of ours we'll be at the corners, walking across the cross walks, and handing out flyers to the stopped cars. We plan on continuing to demonstrate within District 4 and in other areas of San Diego with other communities that are fighting this battle with us. We will keep you posted and hope you can join us!
We are Encanto, and we stand for our neighborhood and neighbors!
