Way forward for outdated De Anza Level Cellular Residence Park is dependent upon Metropolis of San Diego land use plan

Terra Vista Administration has run Campland at Mission Bay Park for years, they usually’re the corporate that’s cleansing up the large mess that’s the outdated De Anza Level Cellular Residence Park.

The corporate plans to show it into campsites with a few of the most lovely views conceivable.

KPBS talked in regards to the plans with Terra Vista Chief Working Officer Jacob Gelfand, who says they embody “putting in new campsites which make the most of the prevailing infrastructure that’s at all times been right here, after which making actually crucial lengthy deferred repairs to this unbelievable bike and pedestrian path going across the cove after which landscaping remediation and street repairs. That kind of factor.”

It’s a monumental activity; the property has practically 170 deserted cellular properties in numerous states of decay.

“[It’s] $8 million price of labor and it includes the abatement of those properties, most of which have lead and asbestos,” Gelfand stated.

Nobody has lived on the city-owned property since 2019. After pandemic-related delays and plenty of regulatory hurdles to leap by way of, Terra Vista lastly obtained approval from the California Coastal Fee final month to scrub the place up.

However earlier than any of the lead and asbestos abatement, earlier than the dilapidated locations might be eliminated, one thing else has to occur first.

“A whole lot of these properties are actually stuffed with rubbish and trash that was left over from the previous residents or folks that broke in in some unspecified time in the future,” Gelfand stated.

When all of the work is full, Gelfand stated this shall be a ravishing and — comparatively talking — reasonably priced place for individuals to camp, an extension of Campland the place individuals can benefit from the magnificence and leisure enjoyable available at Mission Bay Park.

However as they’ve for years, Campland is dealing with opposition from some environmental teams, together with the San Diego Audubon Society, who say there must be much more wetland restoration right here, and that may imply eliminating a few of Campland.

“The Kendall Frost Marsh which we’re taking a look at right here … is the one remaining habitat that we have now in Mission Bay for endangered species, for water high quality safety, for sea degree rise resilience and for entry to schooling and neighborhood house like this,” stated Andrew Meyer, Director of Conservation for the San Diego Audubon Society.

Meyer instructed KPBS the Audubon Society is just not in opposition to tenting. Actually, he stated, they favor tenting alternatives within the space.

However he additionally stated town’s grasp plan now requires 700 acres of wetlands by 2035, and he stated this space is the perfect place to get a lot of that wetland restoration.

“That is the precise proper time for town to be serious about this as a result of they’re of their De Anza land use planning course of, they usually have the ability to say tenting ought to keep, right here’s what we would like it to seem like and it ought to be proper right here,” stated Meyer.

Metropolis leaders nonetheless need to resolve whether or not to make use of Campland property for wetlands, and if that’s the case, how a lot.

Meyer additionally stated the Kumeyaay tribe ought to be thought of as this was all their native ancestral land.

However for now, each side wait on town’s choice; one that will very properly transfer the final word destiny of this land to be determined by the courts.