The Battle For Barrio Logan

By Sandhya Dirks, KPBS/Fronteras

Drive through the streets of the Barrio Logan neighborhood in San Diego and you quickly notice that it is a hodge-podge; From the vibrant murals of Chicano Park dancing on the underbelly of the freeway, to the shipyards that lace the water’s edge, to residential housing tucked in next to industrial warehouses.

Barrio Logan is in many ways just a small slice of the city, wedged between shipyards on one side and the freeway on the other, bisected by the towering Coronado Bridge. But the fight that emerged around the update to the community plan pitted industry and residents against each other in fierce battle.

Georgette Gomez gave me a tour of the neighborhood. She is with the Environmental Health Coalition, an activist group that focuses on environmental issues that impact minority communities. She said the residents of Barrio Logan are predominately poor people of color.

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[Photo by nathangibbs]

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