Following a contentious city council meeting, the San Diego city council voted 6-2 Monday to at Polo Fields park near Del Mar.

Dozens of residents spoke out against the expansion of the use of the fields at Surf Sports Park in recent years, citing crowds and dangerous traffic around the site at Via de La Valle and El Camino Real.

“I’m confident that with today's action... the city will assert its rightful role of managing and enforcing the uses of the property and accrue every penny of revenue,” said Council President Joe LaCava during the meeting.

The property falls in his district.

“No longer will the city struggle in responding to every constituent's complaint but not have the tools to do anything,” LaCava said.

Monday’s council vote was connected to a 1983 grant deed for the prope

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