REGENTS ROAD BRIDGE PROJECT WASTES MILLIONS

The City of San Diego spent an estimated $3 million on an Environmental Impact Report (EIR) that they could not defend in the face of our legal challenge because it failed to fully disclose the negative impacts of the Regents Road bridge project. The City hired a consultant, Project Design Consultants (PDC), to include in the EIR an unbiased analysis of a number of alternatives for traffic congestion relief in addition to the Regents Road bridge project. But secretly city staff promised PDC a large contract to design the bridge (the most expensive of those alternatives) if that alternative happened to be “selected.” It was no surprise, then, that PDC failed to disclose the severe negative impacts of the bridge in the EIR – and millions in city funds were wasted on a legally inadequate EIR that has now been put on the shelf.

Read our two investigative reports.
These reports were prepared based on information found in city documents, including internal emails. Most documents were discovered through Public Records Act requests. The documents cited in these two reports are included as attachments.

Problems with the City’s Contracting Procedures
and the
Use and Misuse of North U.C. FBA Funds
Prepared for Greg Levin, Deputy Comptroller, City of San Diego

1. Executive Summary
2. Cover Letter and Body of Report (15 pages)
3. Attachments (documents cited, 1-15)
4. Attachments (16-29)

Legal, Ethical and Conflict of Interest Issues:
University City North/South EIR and Subsequent Actions
Point to Larger Problems

1. Body of report (35 pages)
2. Attachments 1-13
3. Attachment 13 (legal size)
4. Attachments 14-28
5. Attachments 29 - 37
6. Attachments 38-44
7. Attachments 45-55
8. Attachments 56-71