For the people who live, work, and drive through the Midway District, Midway Rising is more than a glossy rendering. It could mean years of construction, heavier traffic, more noise, crowded streets, and major changes to publicly owned land.

The proposal includes more than 4,250 homes, a 16,000-seat arena, shops, restaurants, and thousands of new residents. Construction could continue through 2035. The City’s own environmental findings identify significant impacts involving commercial traffic, operational noise, and historical resources that cannot be fully eliminated. The report also raises concerns involving construction noise, hazardous materials, and potential risks to future occupants that would require mitigation. Read the City’s environmental findings.

Then there is the project’s troubled legal history. Courts sided with challengers who argued that the City failed to conduct the necessary environmental review before removing the area’s voter-approved height limit. Even after the California Supreme Court declined to hear the City’s appeal, officials continued exploring alternative legal and legislative paths to move the project forward. Read more about the legal controversy.

Residents are not against affordable housing or responsible redevelopment. They are against backroom decisions, unanswered financing questions, inadequate infrastructure, and environmental consequences being pushed aside to benefit a massive private development.

Midway Rising may promise a beautiful new neighborhood—but San Diegans deserve to know who will pay, who will profit, and who will be left dealing with the consequences.

This is public land. The public deserves complete transparency—and a real voice before it is too late..

The City Council must not fast-track the massive Midway Rising project. Serious questions remain about traffic, public safety, environmental impacts, infrastructure, financing, and the project’s long-term consequences.

Please email all nine City Councilmembers today and ask them to:

• Vote NO on the current Midway Rising proposal.
• Require full committee review and public oversight.
• Demand clear answers before making an irreversible decision involving public land.

Councilmembers Henry Foster III and Kent Lee are seeking reelection. Voters will be watching and will remember how every Councilmember votes.

Copy and send this message:

Dear Councilmembers,

I urge you to vote NO on the current Midway Rising proposal. A project of this size and importance must not be fast-tracked.

Please require a complete and transparent review of its environmental, traffic, infrastructure, financial, and public-safety impacts. Protecting San Diego residents must come before the interests of developers.

Thank you.

Send your email to:

JoeLaCava@sandiego.gov;
JenniferCampbell@sandiego.gov;
StephenWhitburn@sandiego.gov;
HenryFoster@sandiego.gov;
MarnivonWilpert@sandiego.gov;
KentLee@sandiego.gov;
RaulCampillo@sandiego.gov;
VivianMoreno@sandiego.gov;
SeanEloRivera@sandiego.gov

Please act today and encourage your friends and neighbors to do the same.

San Diego United Communities
For the people, by the people of San Diego.