. Students need more housing options near campus, he said, so they can help with the city's efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions.Parlier is the lone UCSD student on the University Community Planning Group, which has been advising the city on the community plan update since 2018. He said the group, and attendance at its meetings, is dominated by older, wealthier homeowners — some of whom say openly that students' opinions on zoning don't matter as much as homeowners'.
Leana Cortez, a UC San Diego junior studying global health and sociocultural anthropology, said the stakes for students were even higher than for existing residents worried about increased traffic or a change in the neighborhood's aesthetics. She pointed to a recent "There's just not enough outreach to begin with for people to even know that they can get engaged," Cortez said."And when people are interested and they want to join these spaces, they are faced with that negativity."online surveys
Wiese said those residents who see students as"transient" and not relevant to the zoning debate would have to get used to their presence. Many students stay in the neighborhood after graduation, he said. Even if one student leaves after a few years, they'll be replaced by even more students in the future as the university grows.
"To the extent that that proposal looked like a displacement proposal, I think that it was ill-considered," Wiese said.