Neighborhood with San Diego High School, Balboa Stadium and San Diego City College.
Search this neighborhoodCortez is a neighborhood of San Diego, California, in the San Diego Police Department’s neighborhood outlines, with about 3,800 residents. Its edges follow I-5 on the north, Ash Street and Russ Boulevard on the south, I-5 on the east and Front Street on the west. The park inside it is Tweet Street Mini-Park (0.5 acres). Other places inside it include San Diego High School, Balboa Stadium, San Diego City College and California Western School of Law.
By area, Cortez is zoned mostly Centre City Planned District (CCPD-PC, CCPD-RE). Transit with a stop inside it includes Orange Line trolley (El Cajon - Courthouse), Blue Line trolley (San Ysidro - UTC) and Silver Line trolley (Downtown Loop). Permits issued here over the past year, still open, are mostly building permits. Run an address search on CivicScout to see the details for a specific property.
CivicScout counts San Diego Police Department offense reports that carry a map location inside the Cortez police-neighborhood outline. Citywide, about 3% of offense reports, and about the same share of reports of serious violent crime (about 1 in 8 rape reports), carries no map location and is not counted, and the newest weeks are still being filled in as reports are approved, so the counts understate crime, violent crime included, and cannot show that an area has little of it. Sex offenses are shown at block level, about 100 meters, without a case number. The department’s own process entries (mental-health holds, warrants, probation and parole lines, citations and infractions) are not counted. Incidents handled by other police agencies do not appear: federal military bases, the airport and the Port of San Diego tidelands (the Port’s Harbor Police), UC San Diego and San Diego State University (campus police), the City, Mesa and Miramar colleges, the California Highway Patrol on the freeways, the Sheriff in the unincorporated county, and the police departments of Coronado, National City, Chula Vista and the other neighboring cities. San Diego City College, nearby, is policed by the community college district’s police, and Naval Medical Center San Diego, nearby, is a federal military hospital with its own police, so incidents there are not in the SDPD feed. In Cortez, about 1 in 6 offense reports here (an estimate) carries no map location and is not counted, more than the city's share, so the count here understates crime more than most places.
View safety data →Permits issued in Cortez over the past year, still open, are mostly in the category building permits. San Diego’s permit data covers about the past 21 months and leaves out trade, sign, traffic-control and right-of-way permits; a permit with no map location (about 1 in 400 active permits) is not counted in any neighborhood.
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View new construction →Zoning in Cortez is mostly Centre City Planned District, by area; the exact district varies by parcel.
View zoning →The zoned public schools assigned by attendance boundary.
View schools →A CivicScout report for any Cortez address combines permits, police reports, 311 requests, parks and zoning within a half mile. San Diego’s 311 data (Get It Done) shows only open requests from the past 90 days, so a request that has been resolved is not shown and an address with none listed may still have had one.
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