Neighborhood with Nobel Athletic Area & Recreation Center, Doyle Community Park & Recreation Center and North University Community Library.
Search this neighborhoodUniversity City is a neighborhood of San Diego, California, in the San Diego Police Department’s neighborhood outlines, with about 51,000 residents. Its edges follow I-805 on the north, State Route 52 on the south, I-805 and Roselle Street on the east and I-5 on the west. Parks inside it include Nobel Athletic Area & Recreation Center (29.1 acres), Doyle Community Park & Recreation Center (26.3 acres), Standley Community Park & Recreation Center (20.7 acres) and University Gardens Neighborhood Park (13.3 acres). Other places inside it include North University Community Library and University City High School.
By area, University City is zoned mostly Residential - Single Unit (RS-1-7, RS-1-14), Residential - Multiple Unit (RM-2-5, RM-1-1) and Open Space - Park (OP-2-1, OP-1-1). Transit with a stop inside it includes Blue Line trolley (San Ysidro - UTC), Route 41 (Fashion Valley - UCSD) and Route 105 (Old Town - University City). Permits issued here over the past year, still open, are mostly building permits and combination building permits. The City issues no building permits on the UC San Diego campus and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, inside this area, so the permit data has none there. 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 University City 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. The UC San Diego campus, inside this area, is policed by UC San Diego’s own police, so incidents on the campus are not in the SDPD feed. Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, inside this area, is a federal military base with its own police, so incidents on the base are not in the SDPD feed.
View safety data →Permits issued in University City over the past year, still open, are mostly in the categories building permits and combination building permits. The City issues no building permits on the UC San Diego campus and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, inside this area, so the permit data has none there. 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.
View permits →Major construction and high-impact permits — see what’s changing across the neighborhood.
View new construction →Zoning in University City is mostly Residential - Single Unit, Residential - Multiple Unit and Open Space - Park, 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 University City 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. Get It Done holds almost no requests on the UC San Diego campus and Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, inside this area, so none are shown there.
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