SAN DIEGO—Mayor Todd Gloria took aim at the city’s most pressing issues in his third State of the City Address, including infrastructure, public safety, homelessness, and housing affordability.
“None of tonight should come with the suggestion of mission accomplished,” Mayor Todd Gloria said Jan. 11 night. “Our city has crawled out of the deepest of valleys, and we now find ourselves climbing the highest of mountains. The summit may be far in the distance, but San Diego is taking steps every day to reach it—and we will.”
After delivering his first two State of the City addresses virtually to prevent the spread of COVID-19, Mayor Gloria gave this year’s speech in front of a live audience at the Civic Theater—which sits smack in the middle of Downtown’s civic core that the City plans to redevelop into a new City administration hub and thousands of homes for working-class San Diegans….