Neighborhood with San Diego Yacht Club, Southwestern Yacht Club and Yokohama Friendship Bell.
Search this neighborhoodLa Playa is a neighborhood of San Diego, California, in the San Diego Police Department’s neighborhood outlines, with about 2,100 residents. Its edges follow San Diego Bay on the north, San Diego Bay on the south, San Diego Bay on the east and Gage Drive and Silver Gate Avenue on the west. Other places inside it include San Diego Yacht Club, Southwestern Yacht Club and Yokohama Friendship Bell.
By area, La Playa is zoned mostly Residential - Single Unit (RS-1-4, RS-1-7). Transit with a stop inside it includes Route 84 (Point Loma Shuttle) and Route 28 (Old Town T.C. - Shelter Island). Permits issued here over the past year, still open, are mostly combination building permits and demolition permits. The City’s permit data holds almost none on Shelter Island (Port of San Diego tidelands), inside this area. The absence of permits there is not a finding about construction. 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 La Playa 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. Shelter Island, inside this area, is Port of San Diego tidelands policed by the Port’s Harbor Police, so incidents there are not in the SDPD feed. Naval Submarine Base San Diego and the Fleet Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center, nearby, are federal military installations with their own police, so incidents there are not in the SDPD feed.
View safety data →Permits issued in La Playa over the past year, still open, are mostly in the categories combination building permits and demolition permits. The City’s permit data holds almost none on Shelter Island (Port of San Diego tidelands), inside this area. The absence of permits there is not a finding about construction. 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 La Playa is mostly Residential - Single Unit, by area; the exact district varies by parcel.
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View schools →A CivicScout report for any La Playa 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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