SIGNIFICANT EVENTS IN KEVIN FAULCONER’S 7 YEARS AS MAYOR OF SAN DIEGO

2014

February: Elected mayor of San Diego in a special election following the resignation of Bob Filner.

April: Proposes his first budget, restoring many cuts from the Great Recession, particularly to libraries and recreation centers.

November: San Diego approves Pure Water, a sewage recycling program that will supply one-third of the city’s water by 2035.

2015

January: Faulconer leads a successful effort to land the 2016 MLB All-star Game with an aggressive lobbying and marketing effort. The city last hosted the game in 1992, 12 years before Petco Park opened. December: City Council adopts landmark Climate Action Plan that Faulconer proposed in 2014.

2016

November: Voters reject a ballot measure Faulconer endorsed to build a combination Chargers stadium and convention center downtown, a key factor in the team’s announcement in January 2017 that it will move to Los Angeles.

2017

March: Outbreak of hepatitis A among the city’s downtown homeless population. Faulconer and county officials struggle to control it for several months.

2018

March: City officials reveal they’ve been paying $18,000 a day to rent a vacant high-rise on Ash Street that is eventually determined to be filled with asbestos.

April: Proposes a record capital improvement budget of $553 million — approved by the city council in June — that is triple the $179 million the city spent five years earlier on projects like street repair, sidewalks, parks projects and building upgrades.

August: California Supreme Court rules San Diego’s Proposition B pension reform measure, which Faulconer strongly supported along with Republican colleagues, was illegally placed on the ballot. October: Record spending on street repair in San Diego allows the city to meet a goal of paving or sealing 1,000 miles of streets nearly two years ahead of a goal set by the mayor.

2019

March: San Diego takes a step toward becoming a less car-reliant city when the City Council votes 8-1 to eliminate parking requirements for developers building new condominium and apartment complexes in neighborhoods near mass transit.

2020

March: Voters reject a hotel tax hike to fund a convention center expansion, homeless services and road repair. This denies Faulconer one of the highest priorities of his administration: a larger convention center.

April: Proposes a new parks master plan that would replace a decadesold way of thinking about parks, emphasizing quality over quantity. The new planning approach — not yet adopted — could have profound effects on disadvantaged neighborhoods and older areas already built to capacity.

November: Voters approve a Faulconer-endorsed ballot measure lifting Midway District’s height limit, creating an opportunity for drastic redevelopment of the blighted area around San Diego’s sports arena.