February 11th, 2008 Kensington Terrace Admin
The San Diego City Council voted 5-2 in favor of Kensington Terrace on February 5, 2008.
We wish to thank the hundreds of Kensington residents who have voiced their support for the project. Kensington Terrace is a good project with substantial benefits to the community and worthy of your support.
-Allard Jansen
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January 22nd, 2008 Kensington Terrace Admin
New Kensington Terrace floor plans have been uploaded to our site. Take a look and let us know what you think by adding a comment to this post.
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January 21st, 2008 Kensington Terrace Admin
Originally posted by the San Diego Union Tribune on January 19, 2008.
My mother has lived in Kensington since 1961 and we have lived here for 33 years. We have been proactive during these years to improve our neighborhood. The speed was reduced on Van Dyke/Aldine Drive. Graffiti was painted out personally and regularly reported to the city. Litter was removed and a petition walked to have an alley paved. We attend the Kensington/Talmadge meetings when possible.
My question is where all these opponents to the Kensington Terrace project have been for the last two years of planning. Allard Jansen did thorough presentations at the Ken/Tal meetings and provided suggestion forms for the commercial ventures in the proposed project. Kensington was home to a market, a dime store and a hardware store in years past.
Some of the critics I heard at the meetings have lived here only a short time. Some opponents are longtime residents. Where have they been? The opposition surfaced during the final stages.
It is my wish that “both sides of the street” will start to work together productively. Let’s hope that Jansen doesn’t become frustrated with the process and relinquish the property to someone who could care less about working with this community and some of its residents who behave badly during public forums.
PATT DOUGAN SHINSKY
San Diego
Regarding the writer who sees Allard Jansen’s Kensington Park Plaza building as an “eyesore”: I am also a Kensington resident and I must disagree immensely. The Kensington Park Plaza is a beautiful building and without a doubt the most attractive structure in the Kensington Adams Avenue business district. I’m not alone in this assessment , as evidenced by the building’s receipt of an Orchid award for excellence in architectural design.
Jansen’s new Kensington Terrace project will be a very nice addition to our community and will replace an ugly gas station and dilapidated apartment building. My neighbors and I support the project 100 percent, as do most Kensington residents.
CARSON McINTYRE
San Diego
It seems there is much misinformation being disseminated with regards to this project. What a shame. It’s a beautiful project that would add value for homeowners in the vicinity and benefit the city of San Diego overall by removing what is now little more than urban blight.
It’s a shame that considerable additional time continues to be burn ed up and monies not well spent when this project could be moving forward instead of sitting in limbo. I understand there is a small contingent that threatens legal action if the City Council does not give them their way . Please force their hand on this and get this project moving forward.
Every dollar wasted in legal efforts, especially funds raised by Kensington Community residents in support of legal action, is a dollar that cannot be spent renovating the library across the street from the proposed Kensington Terrace project. We all know there is only so much money that residents will spend in support of their community. Let’s hope the legal donation fund does not drain funds from a much better cause. Of course , when it comes time for people to pony up funds maybe the real truth will be told.
JEFFREY SIMON
San Diego
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January 12th, 2008 Kensington Terrace Admin
New renderings of Kensington Terrace have been posted to our website. Please visit the official website for Kensington Terrace and our gallery page to view the new renderings. We would love to hear what you think, feel free to post your comments on our blog!
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January 10th, 2008 Kensington Terrace Admin
Everything you’re doing would be a perfect fit there. So where do the scales tip for me. Well the scales tip back to the big issue which is you’re building a project consistent with the development regulations and the zoning that apply to that corridor. And the way the zoning is today allows you to do what you want to do, and it allows everybody along there to do exactly what you’re doing”.
The reality is the play book is based on the FAR, based on the density; this is the kind of project that the zoning encourages.
And when I see that there is a unanimous approval by the planning committee, I see all the work that you’ve done, all the design things that you’ve done that are just absolutely examples of what we want developers to do when we do these kinds of things, all of the things that you’ve done have been the right thing and the development regulations which are supposed to implement our vision for our neighborhoods, this is the vision for it.
This is what those regulations say, that’s what this community plan says and at the end of the day I think the scales tip in that favor.
- Barry Schultz, Chairman, November 15, 2007 Planning Commission Hearing
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January 9th, 2008 Kensington Terrace Admin
I think this project (Kensginton Terrace) does a lot of things right…. I mean this is the city of villages. I think the developer and the architect, one in the same person, have done an excellent job of working hard to make a fit and in my opinion have bent over backwards to do the right thing for Kensington and I think that when this thing is all built in a few years, it’s all done, people are going to thank you for it.
I do feel that this will be a tremendous asset to the neighborhood. I think your present development is a tremendous asset to the neighborhood…… If we could get all the projects that were of this quality, it would make our jobs a lot easier. So I am going to be a strong proponent of this.
- Eric Naslund, Commissioner, November 15, 2007 Planning Commission Hearing
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January 3rd, 2008 Kensington Terrace Admin
Do you support Kensington Terrace? We want to hear from you in anticipation of the upcoming San Diego City Council vote in February 2008. Support Kensington Terrace by:
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December 28th, 2007 Kensington Terrace Admin
Welcome to the official blog for Kensington Terrace. Stay tuned as we will be providing updates on a consistent basis. In the meantime:
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December 25th, 2007 Kensington Terrace Admin
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