The Mid-City Transit
Interchanges Project (MCTIP) has been an ongoing planning process
that has followed the adoption of the Mid-City Communities Plan in
1998. Its intent is to foster mixed use infill development adjacent
to the freeway interchanges. The MCTIP Tier I planning area includes
the 30 blocks adjacent to the freeway interchanges. It is proposed
that pilot village sites be the two northern corners of the Boulevard
and the Route 15 freeway. Each corner encompasses two full blocks,
and each contains about eight net acres. Related to any new development
is the recognition that severe infrastructure deficiencies exist,
especially as related to parks, schools, libraries, and the circulation
system. The communities adjacent to the new freeway have, through
the community planning process, bargained for protection of the remaining
single family neighborhoods and a commitment to the resolving the
infrastructure problem in return for acquiescence to development along
the major transit corridors.
The purpose of
this pilot village project is to continue and enhance the partnership
between the City of San Diego, other public agencies, and the community
to foster responsible infill development, and to identify resources,
as suggested in the pilot village solicitation, to address infrastructure
shortcomings.
The Pilot Village
Concept is a major infill development opportunity.
