Video: SD Planning Commission Denies Quail Brush Re-Zone Initiation

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Video of the  will be available on this page shortly. Read more about the Quail Brush Power Project

SDPC voted 4-1 for a motion to deny the initiation of an amendment to re-zone the power plant site from open space to industrial. Read the comments below for key happenings at the meeting.

The applicant, Cogentrix, now has the opportunity to bring this issue to the City Council.

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The item was heard last month, but not enough commissioners attended the meeting to approve or deny the project. It is expected to be heard and voted on early in the meeting.

The Quail Brush Power Plant is proposed to be built in the . The project is in the approval process, and a major step in approval is re-zoning the site from open space to industrial use by the City of San Diego.

The , which didn't come to any conclusion, lasted about six hours and nearly 200 speaker slips were submitted. Though commissioners seemed mostly willing to go along with the project early in the last meeting, by the end there was heated debate.

It has been revealed that the approving agency, the California Energy Commission (CEC), does have the power to override the City's decision, prompting the SDPC chairperson to give this advice to opponents of the power project at the last meeting:

"For those in orange shirts (opponents of the project)- concentrate your energy on the California Energy Commission, regardless of what happens here. That's your next line of attack... they have a potential override of anything done locally."

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