Our CPG Application
UPDATE: The City Council has recognized and approved our proposed CPG structure to represent Uptown! Elections have been held and a board has been seated for the new Uptown Community Planning Group (Uptown CPG). Please update your bookmarks with the new CPG website: https://www.uptowncommunityplanning.org/.
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Reminder: Uptown CPG is a separate organization from Vibrant Uptown. The CPG application we submitted was just one of our initiatives as an advocacy organization.
Community Planning Groups (CPGs) represent the official voice of neighborhoods and provide input to the city in making land use, transportation, and planning decisions. As part of San Diego City Council Policy 600-24 updates that passed in 2023, all CPGs were required to re-apply for recognition with the city as the “designated planning group” for their neighborhood. The City Council is expected to make its decision in recognizing CPGs this April. As part of all of this, the updated policy allowed anyone to file an application and be recognized as the new planning group. Our group decided to put in an application to create and hopefully have "Uptown Community Planning Group” recognized as the official CPG for the Uptown neighborhood. Neighborhoods that fall within “Uptown” are Bankers Hill, Hillcrest, Middletown, Mission Hills, Medical Center, and University Heights. You can read our full application package to the city with the below links. If we are selected and you would like to become a member of the board, please send an expression of interest and which seat you are interested in running for to vibrantuptown@gmail.com.
P.S. The CPG application is just one initiative we are sponsoring as the Vibrant Uptown organization. If chosen, UCPG would be its own independent entity with members elected from the community. The election would be run within 60-90 days after city selection. We, as Vibrant Uptown, would remain a separate entity and continue our work organizing and advocating in the community around important issues.
UCPG Community Participation & Representation Plan