The Uptown Community Plan serves as a blueprint for development in our community.  It was last updated in 1988 and is several years overdue for update.  In July 2008, the City Planning Department first announced that the update of the Uptown Community Plan would begin that fall.  However, the official kick-off meeting did not begin until January 28, 2009.  At that time, the procedures for the update were first announced, including the formation of a stakeholders’ advisory committee and a process including public meetings, workshops and charettes. (A charrette is an open and interactive meeting format where the public works with the team of City staff and consultants to develop concepts for the Update.)  After delays in hiring consultants and forming the stakeholders committee, the first meeting of the advisory committee took place in October 2009.  From that point, the process has moved forward slowly.

Mission Hills Heritage continues to represent the interests of Mission Hills, as well as Uptown in general, in the City of San Diego’s Uptown Community Plan Update process. The City posts information on this process at:

http://www.sandiego.gov/planning/community/profiles/uptown/

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After a two year campaign by Mission Hills Heritage and other groups in the Uptown communities including many meetings and hearings, the San Diego City Council passed the Uptown Interim Height Ordinance (IHO) in July 2008.
The ordinance imposes a mandatory height limit to the following areas:

• 65 feet on Washington Street from 5th Avenue to Dove, on University Avenue from Park to Front Street, and on portions of 4th, 5th and 6th Avenues north of Upas Street, and
• 50 feet on Washington Street from Dove to Ibis Street.

The ordinance also imposes a discretionary height limit of 65 feet on portions of 4th, 5th and 6th Avenues in the area south of Upas Street.

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For several years, members of Mission Hills Heritage, and more recently the Mission Hills Town Council, have worked to have historic “acorn” style street lighting installed in conjunction with the utility under-grounding project for Underground District, Block 2E.

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EXCITING NEWS - we are compiling a Mission Hills coffee table book that will showcase the unique charm of our historic community.  Our friends at the Save Our Heritage Organization (SOHO) and Heritage Press have agreed to publish the book.  It will tell the story of Mission Hills from the early 1900’s when our neighborhood was the dream of several San Diego visionaries to the present.  The book will include photos—both vintage and new—but it will also tell the story through text of the people who have lived and worked in Mission Hills over the years.

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Mission Hills Heritage is pleased to announce the unveiling of its Oral History Program for its new and renewing members

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