San Diego picking and choosing on Yes

Ten years in the making, the large-scale development proposal for the 2,327 acre property in Escondido's Merriam Mountains was rejected yesterday by San Diego's Board of Supervisors. The pivotal vote by supervisor Ron Roberts did not favor the development mainly because San Diego is still working on updating its general plan, determining how the county will meet recently passed state legislation that limits carbon emissions and because the project did not have enough public transit options.

Unlike the position that The San Diego Union Tribune seems to take in it's headline story that San Diego is anti-development I don't believe that the verdict of yesterday's Board Meeting is necessarily an indication that San Diego is anti-development, but rather that San Diego does not want it's North County to turn into another South Orange County.