UC San Diego won't demolish chancellor's house
Mar 18, 2008 12:27 PM
After four years of intense community protest and a little less than $1
million spent, officials at the University of California San Diego have
withdrawn their plan to demolish the chancellor's house and instead will
renovate it. The Pueblo Revival-style mansion, which sits atop a La Jolla
bluff overlooking the Pacific Ocean, was condemned in 2004 because of seismic
deficiencies and plumbing, electrical and structural problems. The university
sought to raise $7 million to demolish and rebuild the home, but American Indian
groups argued that knocking down the house and rebuilding it would further
disturb a sacred Indian burial site underneath. Local history buffs also
objected; the home is one of the few remaining examples of the Pueblo Revival
style. Opponents of the demolition were able to get the home placed on the
National Register of Historic Places and on a list of sacred Indian burial
sites, making it more difficult for the university to bulldoze the house.
Click here to read The
San Diego Union Tribune article.
A plan to demolish the chancellor's house at the University of
California, San Diego, and replace it with a new one has received another
setback after state legislators and other organizations submitted last-minute
letters of opposition. Last week, officials at the La Jolla campus
thought years of haggling would end with regents approving a recent
environmental report and adopting a reduced-scope construction plan. But state
legislators have requested a delay until more discussion takes place.
Click here to read The
San Diego Union-Tribune article.
