So far, said mayoral spokeswoman Rachel Laing, 99 comments and 13 alternatives have been submitted to the Development Services Department, which will decide those to analyze. The City Council approved a memorandum of understanding with Jacobs this week to prepair an environmental impact report, in which selected alternatives would be analyzed. He hopes to have the project done by the 2015 centennial of the Panama-California Exposition. Jacobs has promised that $25 million would be covered by donations and proposed that the balance come from a revenue bond to build the garage with garage parking charges covering the costs. The result would be a car-free zone in the central Plaza de Panama outside the San Diego Museum of Art as well as in the Plaza de California, outside the Museum of Man.
His $40 million plan calls for building the "Centennial Bridge" bypass off the Cabrillo Bridge and routing cars through the Alcazar Garden parking lot and on toward a new 785-space parking garage south of the Spreckels Organ Pavilion.
San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce report on Plaza de PanamaĪlternatives are due July 29 to Qualcomm co-founder Irwin Jacobs' proposal for clearing cars from the center of Balboa Park.
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