City Heights Field Guide | Aug. 29, 2014

City Heights Field Guide | Aug. 29, 2014  Navigating a Changing Community

Take Action   Tonight: Taste of City Heights Join your neighbors for conversation and food at 6 p.m. at Ly Heng Restaurant, 4451 University Ave. RSVP to chtcsd@att.net or (619) 563-0671. Sept. 1: City Heights Area Planning Committee Meeting 6:30PM at the Metro Career Center, 3901 University Ave.  Sept. 2: City Heights Town Council Meeting 6:30 p.m. at the Mid-City Police Substation Sept. 3: Police Problem Solving Meeting Residents are invited to the Mid-City Police Substation from 6 to 7 p.m. to discuss their concerns about crime and policing in City Heights. Sept. 9: Mid-City CAN Networking Council 8 to 10 a.m. at the Scripps City Heights Wellness Center in the City Heights Urban Village. Sept. 20: New Land, New Hope Fundraiser for the Somali Bantu Association of America featuring traditional dancing, music and cuisine of Somalia. Sept. 30: Coastal Cleanup Day Residents will help keep San Diego's watershed healthy by clearing out canyons at 17 City Heights location. Put on by I Love a Clean San Diego 9 a.m. to noon. Oct. 18: Lowrider Gospel Fest The annual lowrider and hotrod show is designed to reach out to at-risk youth and low-income families, offering access to various social services. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the City Heights Urban Village.

Brace For a Taxi Permit Free-For-All Councilwoman Marti Emerald wants to lift the cap on the number of taxis serving San Diego to help drivers get out from underneath their burdensome leases. She's in for a fight with cab owners. "I was in total disbelief when I heard about this because it runs counter to everything we've been doing to cooperate with city," said Michel Anderson, a spokesman for cab companies. "This was not on the table whatsoever."   >>Driver advocate: We're in control now. Personal Stories of Homelessness in City Heights One of our youth reporters in The AjA Project tells us Idris Ali, pictured above, is homeless but proud of himself and the life he lives. In a series of portraits of men and women living on the streets of City Heights, the photographer asks us to drop our assumptions about homelessness. >>See the rest. City Heights Grinds on Community Health in Urban Planning Urban planners are expanding their definition of health beyond the state's CEQA environmental law - and City Heights skaters are in on the trend. They helped author a report that looks at the health benefits and implications of the skate park coming to their neighborhood. >>Watch Mid-City CAN Youth Council member Leslie Renteria talk about the report on KPBS Evening Edition. Crafting an Arts District in Azalea Park "(Azalea Park) could be filled with galleries, artist spaces, dance studios, theatre groups, coffee shops and restaurants. It could be a sister neighborhood to South Park just west of the 805 freeway." - Ricardo Moran, president of the Azalea Park Neighborhood Association >>Read more (en español) Sincerely, Megan Burks Speak City Heights