🎙️ SAN DIEGO — WE’RE IN THE STUDIO! 🎙️
The brand-new SAN DIEGO UNITED COMMUNITIES PODCAST is officially underway, and we’ve been busy in the studio recording conversations about the issues that matter to OUR neighborhoods, OUR families, and OUR future.
This podcast is about giving San Diegans a microphone. From development and housing to seniors, infrastructure, public safety, elections, neighborhood concerns, and everything in between — we want to hear directly from the people living it.
📣 DO YOU WANT YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD’S VOICE HEARD?
Join us in the studio! Bring your concerns, your ideas, your experiences, and your solutions. Community leaders, neighborhood groups, advocates, residents, and local organizations are all welcome.
No neighborhood should feel ignored. No community should feel silenced.
🎧 More episodes are coming!
🎤 Want to be a guest?
Reach out to San Diego United Communities and come join the conversation.
YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD. YOUR VOICE. YOUR SAN DIEGO.
protecting our san diego senior citizens!
Press conference at balboa park to repeal the fees 01/24/26
Emerald Hills & Encanto press conference rally 01/10/26
Ocean Beach is following our tagline
REPEAL THE FEES
WHY REPEAL THE TRASH FEE...
Voters approved a 2022 measure based on misleading estimates of $23-29/month, but now face new trash fees of $43.60/month and rising to $55 - the highest in the county. San Diego should contract with private trash haulers like every other city in the county to save the City and taxpayers.
THE STORY OF PAID PARKING
WHY PARKING FEES SHOULD BE REPEALED...
New paid parking at Balboa Park. New paid parking at the Zoo. Increased parking at meters throughout San Diego. "Surge" pricing to $10/HR in the Gaslamp. Paid parking on Sundays. Attempts for new paid parking at beaches...when will it end?
The City estimates these new parking rates will generate nearly $30M annually in new revenue.
These increases aren't primarily about encouraging transit use or improving parking turnover; if that were the goal, the city would have raised rates years ago.
This is fundamentally about addressing a staggering $250 million budget deficit, driven by years of overspending, excessive staffing, and financial mismanagement, all passed onto workers, visitors, and residents through higher everyday costs.
Paid parking is not meant to be a city profit-center. At most, the public purpose of paid parking is to recover the nominal cost of parking stall maintenance and generate turnover to create better access to desirable public spaces.
But these news fees are bailing out the city's poor spending and management decisions while making access to the best part of San Diego more expensive for everyone.
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"Testimonies"
Eric Law
In our struggle, I cite Benjamin Franklin often: "We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
Margaret Virissimo
Fighting against the destruction of a city is important for preserving human life, cultural heritage, economic stability, and environmental health. The reasons span humanitarian, social, and practical concerns.
Jane Rodrigues
Grass Root Efforts seems to be the only way to be heard in San Diego. I hope this group can get through and mke a huge difference with some wins.
mark inglewood
The destruction of one's home and neighborhood causes significant psychological trauma and disrupts social networks. Restoring the original environment can help minimize this trauma.
james kennedy
Grassroots efforts can succeed against city governments primarily because they derive immense power and credibility from authentic community engagement and a deep, localized understanding of the issues. This focus on the "lived experience" of everyday people creates pressure that elected officials, who are accountable to voters, find difficult to ignore
albert jones
I am so thankful for this group, uniting San Diego neighborhoods through one platform.