In the middle of the summer, right off the bayfront, the Marina Village Banquet and Conference Center in Mission Bay is desolate. San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria is looking to change that.

He wants to declare the parcel of land, along with two others, surplus land. That would allow the city to lease out the land long-term to developers.

During Tuesday night’s Mission Bay Park Committee meeting, the city presented its "Mission Bay Park surplus land development" proposal. Residents weren’t impressed. Some city leaders’ comments were met with boos and loud outbursts.

Declaring the three parcels surplus land would pave the way for a hotel to be built at Marina Village, something adopted in the Mission Beach Park Master Plan.

The two other plots of land are located where Sportsmen's Seafood Res

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