A Cross-Border Employment Center: One of the plan’s primary goals is to make Otay Mesa a “binational regional center.” Doing so would also accomplish two other goals: increase employment with a diverse economy, and expand the area’s industrial base.
Otay Mesa wants to be a big part of the solution to San Diego’s housing crisis.
Its new community plan – which is up for a City Council vote Tuesday – aims to make the area a manufacturing jobs center, and to provide thousands of new homes to help meet the city’s shortage. It would create two new neighborhoods that would cluster homes, shopping and work opportunities around trolley stations.
The community, which sits along the city’s border with Mexico and stretches more than 7,000 football fields, has been working toward its new community plan for more than a decade.
Also at play as the plan is considered: a dispute between Torrey Pines Bank, which owns a property near the border, and the city over what type of development should be allowed there. The bank wants the chance to build retail options there; the city would rather keep the area reserved for industrial use.
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