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November 28, 2018
Community Improvement

Voice of San Diego: How Barrio Logan's Fumes Pushed David Alvarez into Politics

As a teenager, David Alvarez once heard another student ask of Barrio Logan, “Why would anyone want to live here?” Soon after, he attended his first community meeting.

“I just felt like there was something really wrong and nobody was fixing the wrong,” Alvarez said.

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San Diego Reader: How tall is too tall in Point Loma?

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Community Improvement

NBC 7: 'We Cannot Walk Safely': Residents Press City to Fix Hazardous Sidewalks

South and Central San Diego residents gathered with their City councilmember Wednesday, pressing the City to fix what they called dangerous and hazardous cracked sidewalks in their neighborhoods. "Sidewalks have often been forgotten," Councilmember David Alvarez said. "We are standing at what I would consider one of the worst sidewalk issues here, and this community actually has a sidewalk. There are a whole bunch of communities that don't have sidewalks. And that's also a problem."

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