First Draft Community Plan

The first draft of the updated Mid-City Communities Plan is now available for your review and feedback. Following the vision for Citywide growth outlined in the City's General Plan, this draft is based on community feedback received so far and provides a 30-year roadmap for the Mid-City communities, focusing on land use, mobility, parks, public facilities, sustainability, design, and history. 

We want to hear more from you. Take a look at the draft and share your thoughts to help refine the draft plan to best shape the future of Mid-City. Please give us your feedback by October 2nd. 

       Review the First Draft of the Mid-City Communities Plan

Give Your Feedback on the First DraftFrequently Asked Questions

What’s Next?

Your input on this first draft will help shape the Second Draft Mid-City Communities Plan, which will be available in Winter 2026.

Upcoming Meetings

In Fall 2026, the City Planning Department will present an overview of the first draft to the following groups as well as other groups:

  • Mid-City Communities Plan Update Working Group
  • City Heights Area Planning Committee
  • Eastern Area Communities Planning Committee
  • Kensington-Talmadge Planning Group
  • Normal Heights Community Planning Group

Meeting dates and details will be posted on this webpage.

Questions or Feedback?

We want to hear from you! Please send your questions or comments by email to PlanMidCity@sandiego.gov.

Additional Supporting Materials

Explore additional documents, maps, and technical analyses used to inform the draft plan:

About the Plan Update

The City of San Diego is updating the Mid-City Communities Plan for the first time in 25 years to identify opportunities for new homes, businesses and infrastructure to benefit everyone in Mid-City. The Mid-City Communities Plan will be a part of the City's General Plan - the City's guide to long-term growth - and will implement the City's Climate Action Plan. The City looks forward to hearing from community members about what the community is like today, and their vision for the future growth and investment in Mid-City. 

The Mid-City Communities Plan includes four communities: City Heights, Eastern Area, Kensington-Talmage and Normal Heights. The update to the Mid-City Communities Plan will serve as the 30-year vision for history and place, sustainability and climate resilience, land use, design, mobility, and parks, public facilities and open space.

Strategic Plan Priority Areas of Focus

This initiative focuses on the following priority areas of the Strategic Plan:

Create Homes for All of Us

Focuses opportunities for housing within mixed-use, commercial and residential areas.

Protect & Enrich Every Neighborhood

Identifies opportunities for public spaces and pocket parks, trails and joint-use facilities.

Provides guidance for the future identification and preservation of historical resources and districts that embody architectural and cultural history.

Advance Mobility & Infrastructure

Identifies opportunities for mobility infrastructure that improves walking/rolling, biking and transit connections.

Champion Sustainability

Promotes opportunities for urban greening and street trees to address stormwater runoff and climate change.

Protects canyons, open spaces and sensitive habitats.

Foster Regional Prosperity

Promotes employment uses as economic drivers connected to regional transit.

Mid-City Communities Planning Area

Community Plan Update Timeline and Process

July '26 Updated Mid-City Timeline

The community ideas phase takes place in winter through summer 2024. In this phase, input will be collected from people that live and work in Mid-City about how to improved the community. The community validation phase takes place in fall through winter 2024. In this phase, input will be collected on early options based on community ideas and technical analyses. The first draft phase takes place in spring to fall 2025. This phase will give the community an opportunity to review and provide meaningful input on the complete draft. The second draft/environmental analysis phase takes place in winter through spring 2026 and includes an updated plan and environmental document for the community plan. The adoption and hearing process phase takes place in summer through fall 2026. In this phase, the community plan will be finalized for adoption by the city council.

How to Keep Updated and Get Involved?

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Email Us

Send additional comments, suggestions or questions to PlanMidCity@SanDiego.gov and a Community Planner will get back to you.

Mid-City Communities Plan Update Working Group

As a part of an inclusive engagement process, the City has convened a Working Group. The next Working Group is tentatively scheduled for mid-September, 2026. 

First Draft Community Plan

  • First Draft –  provides a comprehensive draft for the community to review and reflects the diverse perspectives we have heard from the public to date.

Ideas and Concepts 

  • Draft Mid-City Ideas Report - explores preliminary visions, frameworks and concepts informed by extensive public engagement and existing conditions analyses. Its purpose is to share ideas and concepts with the public to encourage discussion and gather additional input that will inform the Draft Community Plan.
  • Planned Pedestrian Network - highlights pedestrian routes throughout Mid-City that identifies district sidewalks, corridor sidewalks, connector sidewalks, neighborhood sidewalks, and ancillary pedestrian facilities.
  • Planned Bicycle Network - highlights bicycle facilities throughout Mid-City to showcase where multi-use paths, bicycle lanes, bicycle routes, and separated bikeways are located and how they are connected. 
  • Corridor Concept Analysis - highlights aerial drawings and 3D renderings of the existing conditions along the Top 10 Priority Corridors, including curb-to-curb widths, median type, sidewalk details, parking type, transit information, and traffic volumes.

Existing Conditions 

Public Engagement 

Workshops

Supporting Information and Materials

Current and Past Community Plans