Bigger apartments, more outdoor dining, leafier streets: 137 ways San Diego wants to change the cityscape

San Diego is considering a large package of city zoning changes that would make it easier to create wireless antenna farms, loosen rules for sidewalk cafes in Old Town and eliminate an incentive to build small apartments.

The package of 137 changes, which is scheduled for a City Council vote in April, would also ban new storage facilities on parts of El Cajon Boulevard and University Avenue and require some hotels and apartment complexes to upgrade pool heaters.

The changes are part of the city’s annual land development code update, a months-long process that has taken longer than usual this time around. The list of changes, first unveiled last summer, has since been tweaked and adjusted. Some proposals have been revised, some discarded and others added.

Among the revised list of proposed changes are proposals to strengthen a ban on cannabis outlets using leaf images in their signage, allow more child care businesses in Miramar and clarify wildfire prevention rules for property lines.

Thirty-one of the 137 proposals apply only to downtown, including looser rules for farmers markets and new developer incentives for projects that have rooftop gardens or are along decaying C Street.

Also in downtown only, the package includes allowing developers to build large projects ...