Speeding on Comstock Street
The limit is 25 mph and it is not being enforced. After a crash that totalled three cars, we surveyed the neighborhood: 49 residents told us what they want done.
San Diego · District 7
The neighborhood's voice, run by neighbors.
The Linda Vista Town Council is an all-volunteer group that takes what residents care about — speeding on our streets, transit plans, the cost of living here — and carries it to the City. Anyone who lives or works in Linda Vista can come to a meeting, speak, and be heard. You don't need to be a member.
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Current business
What the council is working on
Accessory dwelling units are the big one. Members have brought the same complaint to meeting after meeting: four, six and nine-unit ADU complexes going up between single-family houses, with no parking added and no traffic or infrastructure work. The City reformed the rules in 2025. We do not think it went far enough — what we asked for, and what came back →
Every relaxation of ADU rules has been justified by the housing crisis. This is that crisis, measured: the median price of an existing single-family home in San Diego County, with the two dates the rules were loosened marked on it.
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The line was already steep before either rule existed. The median roughly quadrupled between 1990 and October 2020, when the City adopted the ADU Bonus Program — from $181,470 to $730,000. It has risen another 37% since. Prices also fell by more than a third between 2005 and 2008, with no ADU rule changing either way.
So this chart does not show that ADUs raised prices, and it does not show that they lowered them. Housing prices move on interest rates, wages, migration and the business cycle, and no one has isolated the effect of one city program inside that. What it does show is how old the problem is: San Diego was already unaffordable for a generation before the ADU Bonus Program, and it is more unaffordable five years after it. That is the reason to judge these rules by what they actually do on a street — parking, traffic, the size of the building next door — rather than by the crisis invoked to justify them.
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The same thirty-five years, with rent and inflation beside it
Home prices are dollars and the other two are price indexes, so all three are set to 100 in 1990 and the chart shows how much each has multiplied since. Putting dollars and an index on two different y-axes would let whoever drew the chart choose where the lines cross, so we don’t.
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Over thirty-five years the price of a house rose 5.5×, rent rose 3.6×, and prices in general rose 2.8×. So housing did outrun everything else — but buying outran renting by a long way. Adjusted for inflation, a house costs about twice what it did in 1990 while rent costs about 1.3 times.
Since the ADU Bonus Program in 2020, rent has risen 33% while prices in general have risen 27% — about four points of real increase over five years. Rent has not run away in that period, and an argument made from this page should say so rather than hope nobody checks.
That is not evidence the program worked either. It issued a few dozen permits in 2021–22 and 151 in 2023, in a county with more than a million homes. A program that small cannot move a county-wide price line in either direction — which is exactly the problem with having justified it by one.
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Also in front of us
Three other things
Each one is somewhere the council can actually move the City, and each one is stronger with more residents behind it.
Rapid Route 41 bus lane
SANDAG's Next Gen Rapid Route 41 would run Hillcrest to UC San Diego through Linda Vista. Planning was completed in 2023 and SANDAG is still securing funding — which is the window to weigh in.
Beach parking, and the county sales tax
An ordinance to keep beach and Mission Bay parking free is waiting on a City Council vote, and a half-cent county sales tax is on the November ballot. Both are still open. We want a neighborhood position before they are decided.
Open poll · takes about a minute
Where do you stand?
Two questions the City has not decided yet, and one button. Answer either or both — results update the moment you send them, and where enough people answer we send the numbers to the offices making the decision.
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