GROWTH MANAGEMENT IN THE CITY OF SAN-DIEGO - PLANNING THE FUTURE NOW

The city of San Diego has historically embraced growth management as a n important element of its planning programs. In the mid-1970s, the ci ty of San Diego embarked on what would become a model growth-managemen t program for larger cities throughout the country. One fundamental as pect of the city's program is the division of the city into three dist inct areas or tiers; these tiers are known as urbanized, planned urban izing, and future urbanizing. These three tiers comprise the basic ele ment of the city's growth-management efforts, and they have been used to locate and focus areas of development. The purposes of this paper i nclude: (1) Provision of a brief history of San Diego's growth-managem ent plan; (2) a reexamination of each tier's status with respect to cu rrent conditions; (3) demonstration of the need to plan the future urb anizing area; and (4) discussion of applicable lessons for other juris dictions. All of the information used in this analysis is public in na ture.