San Diego, California City of San Diego Images from top, left to right: San Diego Skyline, Coronado Bridge, House of Hospitality in Balboa Park, Serra Museum in Presidio Park and the Old Point Loma lighthouse Images from top, left to right: San Diego Skyline, Coronado Bridge, House of Hospitality in Balboa Park, Serra Museum in Presidio Park and the Old Point Loma lighthouse Flag of San Diego, California Flag Official seal of San Diego, California Location of San Diegowithin San Diego County inside San Diego County San Diego, California is positioned in the US San Diego, California - San Diego, California County San Diego Body San Diego City Council San Diego (/ s n di e o /, Spanish for "Saint Didacus"; Spanish: [san eje.
It is in San Diego County, on the coast of the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, approximately 120 miles (190 km) south of Los Angeles and immediately adjoining to the border with Mexico.
With an estimated populace of 1,394,928 as of July 1, 2015, San Diego is the eighth-largest town/city in the United States and second-largest in California.
It is part of the San Diego Tijuana conurbation, the second-largest transborder agglomeration between the US and a bordering nation after Detroit Windsor, with a populace of 4,922,723 citizens . San Diego has been called "the place of birth of California". It is known for its mild year-round climate, natural deep-water harbor, extensive beaches, long association with the United States Navy, and recent emergence as a healthcare and biotechnology evolution center.
Historically home to the Kumeyaay citizens , San Diego was the first site visited by Europeans on what is now the West Coast of the United States.
Upon landing in San Diego Bay in 1542, Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claimed the region for Spain, forming the basis for the settlement of Alta California 200 years later.
The Presidio and Mission San Diego de Alcala, established in 1769, formed the first European settlement in what is now California.
The town/city is the seat of San Diego County and is the economic center of the region as well as the San Diego Tijuana urbane area.
The existence of the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), with the affiliated UCSD Medical Center, has helped make the region a center of research in biotechnology.
See also: History of San Diego and Timeline of San Diego Mission San Diego de Alcala The initial inhabitants of the region are now known as the San Dieguito and La Jolla citizens . The region of San Diego has been inhabited by the Kumeyaay citizens . Sailing his flagship San Salvador from Navidad, New Spain, Cabrillo claimed the bay for the Spanish Empire in 1542, and titled the site "San Miguel". In November 1602, Sebastian Vizcaino was sent to map the California coast.
Arriving on his flagship San Diego, Vizcaino surveyed the harbor and what are now Mission Bay and Point Loma and titled the region for the Catholic Saint Didacus, a Spaniard more generally known as San Diego de Alcala.
In May 1769, Gaspar de Portola established the Fort Presidio of San Diego on a hill near the San Diego River.
In July of the same year, Mission San Diego de Alcala was established by Franciscan friars under Junipero Serra. By 1797, the mission boasted the biggest native populace in Alta California, with over 1,400 neophytes living in and around the mission proper. Mission San Diego was the southern anchor in California of the historic mission trail El Camino Real.
In 1821, Mexico won its independence from Spain, and San Diego became part of the Mexican territory of Alta California.
(See, List of pre-statehood mayors of San Diego.) However, San Diego had been losing populace throughout the 1830s and in 1838 the town lost its pueblo status because its size dropped to an estimated 100 to 150 residents. Beyond town Mexican territory grants period the number of California ranchos that modestly added to the small-town economy.
At first they had an easy time of it capturing the primary ports including San Diego, but the Californios in southern Alta California hit back.
Following the prosperous revolt in Los Angeles, the American garrison at San Diego was driven out without firing a shot in early October 1846.
Mexican partisans held San Diego for three weeks until October 24, 1846, when the Americans recaptured it.
In the ensuing Battle of San Pasqual, fought in the San Pasqual Valley which is now part of the town/city of San Diego, the Americans suffered their worst losses in the campaign.
As a result of the Mexican American War of 1846 48, the territory of Alta California, including San Diego, was ceded to the United States by Mexico, under the terms of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848.
The Mexican negotiators of that treaty tried to retain San Diego as part of Mexico, but the Americans insisted that San Diego was "for every commercial purpose of nearly equal importance to us with that of San Francisco," and the Mexican American border was eventually established to be one league south of the southernmost point of San Diego Bay, so as to include the entire bay inside the United States. Namesake of Horton Plaza, Alonzo Horton advanced "New Town" which became Downtown San Diego.
That same year San Diego was designated the seat of the newly established San Diego County and was incorporated as a city.
The initial town of San Diego was positioned at the foot of Presidio Hill, in the region which is now Old Town San Diego State Historic Park.
In the late 1860s, Alonzo Horton promoted a move to the bayside area, which he called "New Town" and which became Downtown San Diego.
Horton promoted the region heavily, and citizens and businesses began to relocate to New Town because of its locale on San Diego Bay convenient to shipping.
New Town soon eclipsed the initial settlement, known to this day as Old Town, and became the economic and governmental heart of the city. Still, San Diego remained a relative backwater town until the arrival of a barns connection in 1878.
In the early part of the 20th century, San Diego hosted two World's Fairs: the Panama-California Exposition in 1915 and the California Pacific International Exposition in 1935.
Most were eventually rebuilt, using castings of the initial facades to retain the architectural style. The menagerie of exotic animals featured at the 1915 exposition provided the basis for the San Diego Zoo. During the 1950s there was a citywide festival called Fiesta del Pacifico highlighting the area's Spanish and Mexican past. In the 2010s there was a proposal for a large-scale celebration of the 100th anniversary of Balboa Park, but the plans were abandoned when the organization tasked with putting on the celebration went out of business. Navy existence began in 1901 with the establishment of the Navy Coaling Station in Point Loma, and period greatly amid the 1920s. By 1930, the town/city was host to Naval Base San Diego, Naval Training Center San Diego, San Diego Naval Hospital, Camp Matthews, and Camp Kearny (now Marine Corps Air Station Miramar).
The town/city was also an early center for aviation: as early as World War I, San Diego was proclaiming itself "The Air Capital of the West". The town/city was home to meaningful aircraft developers and manufacturers like Ryan Airlines (later Ryan Aeronautical), established in 1925, and Consolidated Aircraft (later Convair), established in 1923. Charles A.
During World War II, San Diego became a primary hub of military and defense activity, due to the existence of so many military installations and defense manufacturers.
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The resulting downturn led San Diego leaders to seek to diversify the city's economy by focusing on research and science, as well as tourism. From the start of the 20th century through the 1970s, the American tuna fishing fleet and tuna canning trade were based in San Diego, "the tuna capital of the world". San Diego's first tuna cannery was established in 1911, and by the mid-1930s the canneries working more than 1,000 citizens .
Downtown San Diego was in diminish in the 1960s and 1970s, but experienced some urban renewal since the early 1980s, including the opening of Horton Plaza, the revival of the Gaslamp Quarter, and the assembly of the San Diego Convention Center; Petco Park opened in 2004. See also: List of beaches in San Diego, California and Parks in San Diego According to SDSU professor emeritus Monte Marshall, San Diego Bay is "the surface expression of a north-south-trending, nested graben".
The town/city lies on approximately 200 deep canyons and hills separating its mesas, creating small pockets of natural open space scattered throughout the town/city and giving it a hilly geography. Traditionally, San Diegans have assembled their homes and businesses on the mesas, while leaving the urban canyons mostly wild. Thus, the canyons give parts of the town/city a segmented feel, creating gaps between otherwise proximate neighborhoods and contributing to a low-density, car-centered surrounding.
The San Diego River runs through the middle of San Diego from east to west, creating a river valley which serves to divide the town/city into northern and southern segments.
The river used to flow into San Diego Bay and its fresh water was the focus of the earliest Spanish explorers. Several reservoirs and Mission Trails Regional Park also lie between and separate advanced areas of the city.
The Cleveland National Forest is a half-hour drive from downtown San Diego.
In its 2013 Park - Score ranking, The Trust for Public Land reported that San Diego had the 9th-best park fitness among the 50 most crowded U.S.
The town/city of San Diego recognizes 52 individual areas as Community Planning Areas. Within a given planning region there may be a several distinct neighborhoods.
Downtown San Diego is positioned on San Diego Bay.
To the east and southeast lie City Heights, the College Area, and Southeast San Diego.
Point Loma is situated in the peninsula athwart San Diego Bay from downtown.
The communities of South San Diego, such as San Ysidro and Otay Mesa, are positioned next to the Mexico United States border, and are physically separated from the rest of the town/city by the metros/cities of National City and Chula Vista.
A narrow strip of territory at the bottom of San Diego Bay joins these southern neighborhoods with the rest of the city.
San Diego was originally centered on the Old Town district, but by the late 1860s the focus had shifted to the Bayfront, in the belief that this new locale would increase trade.
The evolution of high-rise buildings over 300 feet (91 m) in San Diego is attributed to the assembly of the El Cortez Hotel in 1927, the tallest building in the town/city from 1927 to 1963. As time went on multiple buildings claimed the title of San Diego's tallest high-rise building, including the Union Bank of California Building and Symphony Towers.
Currently the tallest building in San Diego is One America Plaza, standing 500 feet (150 m) tall, which was instead of in 1991. The downtown horizon contains no super-talls, as a regulation put in place by the Federal Aviation Administration in the 1970s set a 500 feet (152 m) limit on the height of buildings inside a one-mile (1.6 km) radius of the San Diego International Airport. An iconic description of the horizon includes its high-rise buildings being compared to the tools of a toolbox. San Diego is one of the top-ten best climates in the Farmers' Almanac and is one of the two best summer climates in America as scored by The Weather Channel. Under the Koppen Geiger climate classification system, the San Diego region has been variously categorized as having either a semi-arid climate (BSh in the initial classification and BSkn in modified Koppen classification) or a Mediterranean climate (Csa and Csb). San Diego's climate is characterized by warm, dry summers and mild winters with most of the annual rain falling between December and March.
The climate in San Diego, like most of Southern California, often varies decidedly over short geographical distances resulting in microclimates.
In San Diego, this is mostly because of the city's topography (the Bay, and the various hills, mountain peaks, and canyons).
Frequently, especially during the "May gray/June gloom" period, a thick "marine layer" cloud cover keeps the air cool and damp inside a several miles of the coast, but yields to bright cloudless sunlight approximately 5 10 miles (8.0 16.1 km) inland. Sometimes the June gloom lasts into July, causing cloudy skies over most of San Diego for the entire day. Even in the absence of June gloom, inland areas experience much more momentous temperature variations than coastal areas, where the ocean serves as a moderating influence.
Thus, for example, downtown San Diego averages January lows of 50 F (10 C) and August highs of 78 F (26 C).
The town/city of El Cajon, just 10 miles (16 km) inland from downtown San Diego, averages January lows of 42 F (6 C) and August highs of 88 F (31 C).
Rainfall is usually greater in the higher elevations of San Diego; some of the higher areas can receive 11 15 inches (280 380 mm) per year.
Like most of southern California, the majority of San Diego's current region was originally occupied by chaparral, a plant improve made up mostly of drought-resistant shrubs.
The endangered Torrey pine has the bulk of its populace in San Diego in a stretch of protected chaparral along the coast.
San Diego's broad town/city limits encompass a number of large nature preserves, including Torrey Pines State Reserve, Los Penasquitos Canyon Preserve, and Mission Trails Regional Park.
San Diego County has one of the highest counts of animal and plant species that appear on the endangered list of counties in the United States. Because of its range of surrounding and its position on the Pacific Flyway, San Diego County has recorded 492 different bird species, more than any other region in the country. San Diego always scores highly in the number of bird species observed in the annual Christmas Bird Count, sponsored by the Audubon Society, and it is known as one of the "birdiest" areas in the United States. In October 2003, San Diego was the site of the Cedar Fire, called the biggest wildfire in California over the past century. The fire burned 280,000 acres (1,100 km2), killed 15 citizens , and finished more than 2,200 homes. In addition to damage caused by the fire, smoke resulted in a momentous increase in emergency room visits due to asthma, respiratory problems, eye irritation, and smoke inhalation; the poor air character caused San Diego County schools to close for a week. Wildfires four years later finished some areas, especially inside the communities of Rancho Bernardo, Rancho Santa Fe, and Ramona. Map of ethnic distribution in San Diego, 2010 U.S.
The urban region of San Diego extends beyond the administrative town/city limits and had a total populace of 2,956,746, making it the third-largest urban region in the state, after that of the Los Angeles urbane region and San Francisco urbane area.
They, along with the Riverside San Bernardino, form those urbane areas in California larger than the San Diego urbane area, with a total populace of 3,095,313 at the 2010 census.
As of the Enumeration of 2010, there were 1,307,402 citizens living in the town/city of San Diego. That represents a populace increase of just under 7% from the 1,223,400 citizens , 450,691 homeholds, and 271,315 families reported in 2000. The estimated town/city population in 2009 was 1,306,300.
The ethnic makeup of San Diego was 45.1% White, 6.7% African American, 0.6% Native American, 15.9% Asian (5.9% Filipino, 2.7% Chinese, 2.5% Vietnamese, 1.3% Indian, 1.0% Korean, 0.7% Japanese, 0.4% Laotian, 0.3% Cambodian, 0.1% Thai).
As of December 2012, San Diego has the third-largest homeless populace in the United States; the city's homeless populace has the biggest percentage of homeless veterans in the nation. The populace of homeless veterans in San Diego has been reduced to 1,150 citizens in 2016, from 2,100 in 2009. Navy vice admiral and an intelligence specialist celebrating Hispanic American Heritage Month in San Diego As of January 1, 2008 estimates by the San Diego Association of Governments revealed that the homehold median income for San Diego rose to $66,715, up from $45,733, and that the town/city population rose to 1,336,865, up 9.3% from 2000. The populace was 45.3% non-Hispanic whites, down from 78.9% in 1970, 27.7% Hispanics, 15.6% Asians/Pacific Islanders, 7.1% blacks, 0.4% American Indians, and 3.9% from other competitions.
Enumeration Bureau reported that in 2000, 24.0% of San Diego inhabitants were under 18, and 10.5% were 65 and over. As of 2011 the median age was 35.6; more than a quarter of inhabitants were under age 20 and 11% were over age 65. Millennials (ages 18 through 34) constitute 27.1% of San Diego's population, the second-highest percentage in a primary U.S.
City. The San Diego County county-wide planning agency, SANDAG, provides tables and graphs breaking down the town/city population into 5-year age groups. The per capita income for the town/city was $23,609. According to Forbes in 2005, San Diego was the fifth wealthiest U.S.
City but about 10.6% of families and 14.6% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 20.0% of those under age 18 and 7.6% of those age 65 or over. Nonetheless, San Diego was rated the fifth-best place to live in the United States in 2006 by Money magazine. San Diego was titled the ninth-most LGBT-friendly town/city in the U.S.
Additionally in 2013, San Diego State University (SDSU), one of the city's prominent universities, was titled one of the top LGBT-friendly campuses in the nation. The biggest sectors of San Diego's economy are defense/military, tourism, global trade, and research/manufacturing, in the order given. In 2014, San Diego was designated by a Forbes columnist as the best town/city in the nation to launch a small company or startup company. The economy of San Diego is influenced by its deepwater port, which includes the only primary submarine and ship assembly yards on the West Coast. Several primary national defense contractors were started and are headquartered in San Diego, including General Atomics, Cubic, and NASSCO. San Diego hosts the biggest naval fleet in the world: In 2008 it was home to 53 ships, over 120 tenant commands, and more than 35,000 sailors, soldiers, Department of Defense civilian employees and contractors. About 5 percent of all civilian jobs in the county are military-related, and 15,000 businesses in San Diego County rely on Department of Defense contracts. Military bases in San Diego include US Navy facilities, Marine Corps bases, and Coast Guard stations.
Downtown San Diego Tourism is a primary industry owing to the city's climate, beaches, and tourist attractions such as Balboa Park, Belmont amusement park, San Diego Zoo, San Diego Zoo Safari Park, and Sea - World San Diego.
San Diego's Spanish and Mexican tradition is reflected in many historic sites athwart the city, such as Mission San Diego de Alcala and Old Town San Diego State Historic Park.
Also, the small-town craft brewing trade attracts an increasing number of visitors for "beer tours" and the annual San Diego Beer Week in November; San Diego has been called "America's Craft Beer Capital." San Diego County hosted more than 32 million visitors in 2012; collectively they spent an estimated $8 billion.
San Diego's cruise ship trade used to be the second-largest in California.
Local sight-seeing cruises are offered in San Diego Bay and Mission Bay, as well as whale-watching cruises to observe the migration of gray whales, peaking in mid-January. Sport fishing is another prominent tourist attraction; San Diego is home to Southern California's biggest sport fishing fleet. San Diego's commercial port and its locale on the United States Mexico border make global trade an meaningful factor in the city's economy.
San Diego hosts the busiest global border crossing in the world, in the San Ysidro neighborhood at the San Ysidro Port of Entry. A second, primarily commercial border crossing operates in the Otay Mesa area; it is the biggest commercial crossing on the California-Baja California border and handles the third-highest volume of trucks and dollar value of trade among all United States-Mexico territory crossings. One of the Port of San Diego's two cargo facilities is positioned in Downtown San Diego at the Tenth Avenue Marine Terminal.
Historically tuna fishing and canning was one of San Diego's primary industries, and although the American tuna fishing fleet is no longer based in San Diego, seafood companies Bumble Bee Foods and Chicken of the Sea are still headquartered there. San Diego hosts a several major producers of wireless cellular technology.
Qualcomm was established and is headquartered in San Diego, and is one of the biggest private-sector employers in San Diego. Other wireless trade manufacturers headquartered here include Nokia, LG Electronics, Kyocera International., Cricket Communications and Novatel Wireless. The biggest software business in San Diego is security software business Websense Inc. San Diego also has the U.S.
Headquarters for the Slovakian security business ESET. San Diego has been designated as an i - Hub Innovation Center for collaboration potentially between wireless and life sciences. The University of California, San Diego and other research establishments have helped to fuel the expansion of biotechnology. In 2013, San Diego had the second-largest biotech cluster in the United States, below the Boston region and above the San Francisco Bay Area. There are more than 400 biotechnology companies in the area. In particular, the La Jolla and close-by Sorrento Valley areas are home to offices and research facilities for various biotechnology companies. Major biotechnology companies like Illumina and Neurocrine Biosciences are headquartered in San Diego, while many other biotech and pharmaceutical companies have offices or research facilities in San Diego.
University of California, San Diego 28,459 San Diego County 16,427 San Diego Unified School District 13,446 City of San Diego 10,968 As of May 2015, the median price of a home was $520,000. However, since February 2016, the median home price has dropped to $455,000. The San Diego urbane region had one of the worst housing affordability rankings of all urbane areas in the United States. Consequently, San Diego has experienced negative net migration since 2004.
A momentous number of citizens moved to adjoining Riverside County, commuting daily to jobs in San Diego, while the rest are leaving the region altogether and moving to more affordable regions. San Diego home prices peaked in 2005, and then declined along with the nationwide trend.
Main article: Culture of San Diego See also: City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture Many prominent exhibitions, such as the San Diego Museum of Art, the San Diego Natural History Museum, the San Diego Museum of Man, the Museum of Photographic Arts, and the San Diego Air & Space Museum are positioned in Balboa Park, which is also the locale of the San Diego Zoo.
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) is positioned in La Jolla and has a branch positioned at the Santa Fe Depot downtown.
The Columbia precinct downtown is home to historic ship exhibits belonging to the San Diego Maritime Museum, headlined by the Star of India, as well as the unrelated San Diego Aircraft Carrier Museum featuring the USS Midway airplane carrier.
The San Diego Symphony at Symphony Towers performs on a regular basis and is directed by Jahja Ling.
The San Diego Opera at Civic Center Plaza, directed by Ian Campbell, was ranked by Opera America as one of the top 10 opera companies in the United States.
The San Diego Repertory Theatre at the Lyceum Theatres in Horton Plaza produces a range of plays and musicals.
Hundreds of movies and a dozen TV shows have been filmed in San Diego, a tradition going back as far as 1898. Main article: Sports in San Diego San Diego Padres Baseball 1969 Major League Baseball Petco Park (41,200) 27,103 San Diego Gulls Ice hockey 2015 American Hockey League Valley View Casino Center (13,000) 8,541 San Diego is home to one primary experienced team Major League Baseball's San Diego Padres, who play at Petco Park.
From 1961 to the 2016 season, the team hosted a National Football League franchise, the San Diego Chargers.
In two separate stints, the National Basketball Association had a charter in San Diego, the San Diego Rockets from 1967 to 1971 and the San Diego Clippers from 1978 to 1984.
From 1972 to 1975, San Diego was home to an American Basketball Association team.
"The Q's") the name was changed to the San Diego Sails for the 1975 76 season, but the team closed before completing that campaign.
San Diego hosts three NCAA universities.
NCAA Division I San Diego State Aztecs men's and women's basketball games are played at Viejas Arena.
The San Diego State Aztecs (MWC) and the San Diego Toreros (WCC) are NCAA Division I teams.
San Diego has hosted a several sports affairs.
The San Diego Breakers played at Torero Stadium in the only PRO Rugby season before the league folded.
San Diego is represented by Old Mission Beach Athletic Club RFC, the former home club of USA Rugby's former Captain Todd Clever. San Diego will participate in the Western American National Rugby League which starts in 2011. The San Diego Surf of the American Basketball Association is positioned in the city.
The San Diego Yacht Club hosted the America's Cup yacht competitions three times amid the reconstruction - 1988 to 1995.
See also: Mayor of San Diego, San Diego City Council, and Government of San Diego County The mayor is in effect the chief executive officer of the city, while the council is the legislative body. The City of San Diego is responsible for police, enhance safety, streets, water and sewage service, planning and zoning, and similar services inside its borders.
San Diego is a sanctuary city, however, San Diego County is a participant of the Secure Communities program. As of 2011, the town/city had one employee for every 137 residents, with a payroll greater than $733 million. San Diego City Council chambers San Diego is part of San Diego County, and includes all or part of the 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th supervisorial districts of the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, Other county officers propel in part by town/city residents include the Sheriff, District Attorney, Assessor/Recorder/County Clerk, and Treasurer/Tax Collector.
Areas of the town/city immediately adjoining to San Diego Bay ("tidelands") are administered by the Port of San Diego, a quasi-governmental agency which owns all the property in the tidelands and is responsible for its territory use planning, policing, and similar functions.
San Diego is a member of the county-wide planning agency San Diego Association of Governments (SANDAG).
In the California State Senate, San Diego covers the 38th, 39th and 40th districts, represented by Joel Anderson (R), Toni Atkins (D), and Ben Hueso (D), in the order given.
In the California State Assembly, San Diego covers the 77th, 78th, 79th, and 80th districts, represented by Brian Maienschein (R), and Todd Gloria (D), Shirley Weber (D), and Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D), in the order given.
In the United States House of Representatives, San Diego covers California's 49th, 50th, 51st, 52nd, and 53rd congressional districts, represented by Darrell Issa (R), Duncan D.
San Diego was the site of the 1912 San Diego no-charge speech fight, in which the town/city restricted speech, vigilantes brutalized and tortured anarchists, and the San Diego Police Department killed an IWW member.
In 1916, rainmaker Charles Hatfield was blamed for $4 million in damages and accused of causing San Diego's worst flood, amid which about 20 Japanese American farmers died. A 2002 scheme to underfund pensions for town/city employees led to the San Diego pension scandal.
He had represented California's 50th congressional district, which includes much of the northern portion of the town/city of San Diego.
San Diego Police Department car in the town/city center San Diego was ranked as the 20th-safest town/city in America in 2013 by Business Insider. According to Forbes magazine, San Diego was the ninth-safest town/city in the top 10 list of safest metros/cities in the U.S.
In 2010. Like most primary cities, San Diego had a declining crime rate from 1990 to 2000.
Crime in San Diego increased in the early 2000s. In 2004, San Diego had the sixth lowest crime rate of any U.S.
Of these, the violent crimes consisted of forcible rapes, 73 robberies and 170 aggravated assaults, while 6,387 burglaries, 17,977 larceny-thefts, 6,389 motor vehicle thefts and 155 acts of arson defined the property offenses. In 2013, San Diego had the lowest murder rate of the ten biggest cities in the United States. Main article: Primary and secondary schools in San Diego Public schools in San Diego are directed by autonomous school districts.
The majority of the enhance schools in the town/city are served by the San Diego Unified School District, the second-largest school precinct in California, which includes 11 K-8 schools, 107 elementary schools, 24 middle schools, 13 atypical and alternative schools, 28 high schools, and 45 charter schools. San Diego State University's Hepner Hall Several adjoining school districts which are headquartered outside the town/city limits serve some schools inside the city; these include the Poway Unified School District, Del Mar Union School District, San Dieguito Union High School District and Sweetwater Union High School District.
Public universities and universities in the town/city include San Diego State University (SDSU), University of California, San Diego (UCSD), and the San Diego Community College District, which includes San Diego City College, San Diego Mesa College, and San Diego Miramar College.
Private universities and universities in the town/city include University of San Diego (USD), Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU), Alliant International University (AIU), National University, California International Business University (CIBU), San Diego Christian College, John Paul the Great Catholic University, California College San Diego, Coleman University, University of Redlands School of Business, Design Institute of San Diego (DISD), Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising's San Diego campus, New - School of Architecture and Design, Pacific Oaks College San Diego Campus, Chapman University's San Diego Campus, The Art Institute of California San Diego, Platt College, Southern States University (SSU), UEI College, and Woodbury University School of Architecture's satellite campus.
There are three ABA accredited law schools in the city, which include California Western School of Law, Thomas Jefferson School of Law, and University of San Diego School of Law.
University of California, San Diego's Geisel Library, titled for Theodor Seuss Geisel ("Dr.
The city-run San Diego Public Library fitness is headquartered downtown and has 36 chapters throughout the city. The newest locale is in Skyline Hills, which broke ground in 2015. The libraries have had reduced operating hours since 2003 due to the city's financial problems.
Love Library at San Diego State University, and the Geisel Library at the University of California, San Diego.
See also: Media in San Diego Published inside the town/city are the daily newspaper, U-T San Diego and its online portal of the same name, and the alternative newsweeklies, the San Diego City - Beat and San Diego Reader.
Times of San Diego is a no-charge online journal covering news in the urbane area.
Voice of San Diego is a non-profit online news supply covering government, politics, education, neighborhoods, and the arts.
The San Diego Daily Transcript is a business-oriented daily newspaper.
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San Diego's first tv station was KFMB, which began transmitting on May 16, 1949. Since the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) licensed seven tv stations in Los Angeles, two VHF channels were available for San Diego because of its relative adjacency to the larger city.
In 1952, however, the FCC began licensing UHF channels, making it possible for metros/cities such as San Diego to acquire more stations.
And Mexican-licensed stations, San Diego is the biggest media market in the United States that is legally unable to support a tv station duopoly between two full-power stations under FCC regulations, which disallow duopolies in urbane areas with severaler than nine full-power tv stations and require that there must be eight unique station owners that remain once a duopoly is formed (there are only seven full-power stations on the California side of the San Diego-Tijuana market). Although the E.
San Diego's tv market is limited to only San Diego county.
The airways broadcasts in San Diego include nationwide broadcaster, i - Heart - Media; CBS Radio, Midwest Television, Entercom Communications, Finest City Broadcasting, and many other lesser stations and networks.
Stations include: KOGO AM 600, KFMB AM 760, KCEO AM 1000, KCBQ AM 1170, K-Praise, KLSD AM 1360 Air America, KFSD 1450 AM, KPBS-FM 89.5, Channel 933, Star 94.1, FM 94/9, FM News and Talk 95.7, Q96 96.1, Ky - Xy 96.5, Free Radio San Diego (AKA Pirate Radio San Diego) 96.9 - FM FRSD, KSON 97.3/92.1, KXSN 98.1, Jack-FM 100.7, 101.5 KGB-FM, KLVJ 102.1, Rock 105.3, and another Pirate Radio station at 106.9 - FM, as well as a number of small-town Spanish-language airways broadcasts.
Water is supplied to inhabitants by the Water Department of the City of San Diego.
In 2014, San Diego announced plans to turn into the first U.S.
Main articles: Transportation in San Diego and Streets and highways of San Diego I-5 looking south toward downtown San Diego Major state highways include SR 94, which joins downtown with I-805, I-15 and East County; SR 163, which joins downtown with the northeast part of the city, intersects I-805 and merges with I-15 at Miramar; SR 52, which joins La Jolla with East County through Santee and SR 125; SR 56, which joins I-5 with I-15 through Carmel Valley and Rancho Penasquitos; SR 75, which spans San Diego Bay as the San Diego-Coronado Bridge, and also passes through South San Diego as Palm Avenue; and SR 905, which joins I-5 and I-805 to the Otay Mesa Port of Entry.
The stretch of SR 163 that passes through Balboa Park is San Diego's earliest freeway, and has been called one of America's most beautiful parkways. In 2006, San Diego was rated the best town/city (with a populace over 1 million) for cycling in the U.S. San Diego is served by the San Diego Trolley light rail system, by the SDMTS bus system, and by Coaster and Amtrak Pacific Surfliner commuter rail; northern San Diego county is also served by the Sprinter light rail line. The Trolley primarily serves downtown and encircling urban communities, Mission Valley, east county, and coastal south bay.
A prepared Mid-Coast extension of the Trolley will operate from Old Town to University City and the University of California, San Diego along the I-5 Freeway, with prepared operation by 2018.
The Amtrak and Coaster trains presently run along the coastline and connect San Diego with Los Angeles, Orange County, Riverside, San Bernardino, and Ventura via Metrolink and the Pacific Surfliner.
There are two Amtrak stations in San Diego, in Old Town and the Santa Fe Depot downtown.
Downtown San Diego International Airport (SAN), also known as Lindbergh Field, is the busiest single-runway airport in the United States. It served over 17 million passengers in 2005, and is dealing with larger numbers every year. It is positioned on San Diego Bay, three miles (4.8 km) from downtown, and maintains scheduled flights to the rest of the United States (including Hawaii), as well as to Canada, Mexico, Japan, and the United Kingdom.
Recent county-wide transit projects have sought to mitigate congestion, including improvements to small-town freeways, expansion of San Diego Airport, and doubling the capacity of the cruise ship terminal.
San Diego has 16 sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International: Flag of California.svg - California portal Flag of Cross of Burgundy.svg - New Spain portal WPSAN San Diego County Map Version 1.png - San Diego County portal San Diego-Tijuana JPLLSan Diego Tijuana portal Official rain records for San Diego were kept at the Weather Bureau Office in downtown from October 1850 to December 1859 at the Mission San Diego and from November 1871 to June 1939 and a range of buildings at downtown, and at San Diego Int'l (Lindbergh Field) since July 1939. Temperature records, however, only date from October 1874.
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And include Austin, New York City, San Diego and Minneapolis.
The program is already in place for various counties in California that have sanctuary cities, including Los Angeles, San Diego and Alameda.
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