The beachfront community of La Jolla, one of the wealthiest and most spectacular areas of San Diego, wants to secede from the city as a whole, citing incompatible spending priorities and a desire for greater self-governance.
The area is home to one of the most beautiful stretches of cliffside coastline in North America, taking in the famous golf course at Torrey Pines and one of California’s best surf spots at Blacks Beach.
The area also houses the University of California San Diego, including the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and the Jonas Salk Institute for Biological Studies, an imposing concrete bunker overlooking a magnificent bay., residents appear to be organizing for a serious effort to break away from the City of San Diego, which has experienced increasing social malaise:
Efforts to make La Jolla its own city separate from San Diego date back to the 1940s and emerge roughly once a decade. But previous tries have lacked funding, stopped short of proposing specific boundaries and typically focused on one or two issues.This time, they are motivated in part by decaying infrastructure they say San Diego doesn’t have the capacity to fix, neglected amenities like parks and concerns that San Diego’s efforts to spur more dense housing could damage La Jolla’s character.
The area used to be more Republican than Democrat, and was represented for many years in Congress by Rep. Darrell Issa . But Issa faced increasingly tough election fights, and retired in 2018, to be replaced by left-wing Bernie Sanders supporter Rep. Mike Levin . Issato Congress after the 2020 election to represent an inland district closer to the U.S.-Mexico border with a more reliably conservative population.
In order to secede, La Jolla would have to have its plans approved by a special county planning board, and the effort would have to be approved in referendums by voters in both La Jolla and in the City of San Diego.on Sirius XM Patriot on Sunday evenings from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET . He is the author of the new biography,
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