Despite a Court of Appeals ruling once again denying the city of San Diego the ability to lift a 30-foot height limit in the Midway District, Mayor Todd Gloria said Monday the fight wasn't over.
In a ruling issued Friday, the 4th District Court of Appeal determined the city hadn't done its due diligence in completing an environmental study on the plan to raise the height limit in the neighborhood — part of an effort to greenlight the nearly $4 billion Midway Rising project.
This is the second time a court has overturned a voter-approved ballot measure to lift the coastal 30-foot limit for new construction in the area on a procedural technicality. San Diego's voters approved "Measure E" to raise the limit in 2020 by a 13-point margin, 56.6% to 43.4%.
"The city attorney and I disagree str