University Heights is a small pocket community of San Diego. Located near the central Uptown area, University Heights is a thriving community with wide sidewalks and an active art, theater, music life. We also have mall, but excellent restaurants, coffee shops, a bakery, antique and bookstores, a rug merchant, custom furniture makers, woodworkers, gallery framing and extraordinary variety of personal artists ranging from hair stylists to body workers are as much a part of the neighborhood as the churches, grammar school, UH Athenaeum School of the Arts, Trolley Park and library.

This extraordinary mix, as well as the classic Arts and Crafts and the Mission Revival bungalows, is always of interest to developers. The University Heights Community Association (UHCA) serves to represent the community with the city, community projects, and developers.

Currently both the city and private developers are actively trying to increase the density of the community while avoiding established master plans. The University Heights Design Review Council currently is focused on insisting that developers follow the exemplary design of the Uptown Community Plan instead of the controversial 'ministerial' review that the city is allowing developers to use.

We depend upon local support, both volunteer and financial, to insure that change does not impinge upon the character of our neighborhood and appreciate all the support we receive in this ongoing endeavor.