To help everyone better understand how we got to this point, we’ve assembled this FAQ.

SDUSD and the UH community have had large-scale visioning meetings at the Brucker Auditorium four times already since 2018, with the final one on November 8, 2023. This is not the beginning - this is a complete restart.

Changes to San Diego’s building permit process leave communities with less say.

In “The Brucker Site: Past, Present, and Future” on the front page, Kristin Harms and Bill Ellig have given us a comprehensive (and excellent) summary of how we got to this point today.

As the forerunner to San Diego State University, the 13-acre site at 4100 Normal Street in University Heights (also known as the Brucker Site and the Normal Street Site) has special significance for our community.

A new 112-unit building is set to rise at El Cajon & Alabama under San Diego’s Complete Communities program.

State and local building incentives have accelerated construction in San Diego, impacting zoning, housing, and the future of neighborhoods like University Heights.

Compendium of articles, letters, and opinion pieces around the Park Blvd. bike lanes that were implemented in May-July 2022.

Councilmember Whitburn advised UHCA leadership in early February 2022 that Mayor Gloria and his staff were proceeding with initial engineering plans and gathering community outreach regarding the installation of “comfort stations” (restrooms) in Old Trolley Barn Park. UHCA undertook a survey which showed an overwhelming response against this proposal.

UH News produced a special section in our July 2021 issue looking at the past, present, and future of our “small, but mighty” UH Branch Library. This section covered the origins and history of our UH library, the current situation, and some thought provoking ideas for updating it to meet the needs of our growing community.