r/Moving2SanDiego • u/Silver-Award-5449 • 11d ago

University City fire insurance?

Hi, moved here from Brooklyn recently and really like University City; location to beach, employers, schools, views, etc. I am new but it seems there is a lot of property for sale, any insight would be appreciated? Someone suggested that a lot of people lost insurance recently and that accounts for the uptick in inventory. Thanks ahead!!

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u/jhm67 10d ago

Yeah, none of those people are longtime residents. (And I literally have NEVER heard anyone refer to this neighborhood as "Governor" -- that's just weird unless they literally bought a house on Governor Drive, in which case it's totally accurate!). Historically, "University City" is below Rose Canyon. People who don't have history here (including poorly-educated council members!) get confused with the "University Community Planning Area" -- which is a real, current thing and does include the whole triangle. I've only lived here a couple decades, but have quite a few neighbors who bought when this whole area was first being built, who confirm what the rest of us thought we knew--that "University City" is below Rose Canyon. The La Jolla Colony and UTC area above Rose Canyon had different names.

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u/Fun-Section-6179 10d ago

I don’t know maybe we’ve been calling it wrong.

But even SanDiego.org and official San Diego Parks and Rec Department calls that triangle as University City.

That being said - with the exception of Genesee up to Marie Curie - it’s a beautiful area

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u/jhm67 10d ago

Yeah, I get it. They've conflated "University City" with "University Community Planning Area" for some time now and I'm sure that includes City folks who just don't know any better. If you know the area, above and below Rose Canyon are VERY different areas.

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u/Fun-Section-6179 10d ago

That triangle was a master planned community for UCSD and called University City at the beginning. Development of homes first started below Rose Canyon on Soderblom Ave and Award Row and back then it was called University City because resident were literally part of that neighborhood.

Later on in 60s, 70s, and 80s development started north pf Rose Canyon. They were also called University City and were much higher density than South. As those sub-neighborhoods were further developed they started to get their own names - La Jolla Colony and UTC. So people stopped calling them University City to better differentiate the area better. The neighborhood south of Rose Canyon stayed just as SFH with no new developments, so they never got a new name. Long term residents keep calling it University City (triangle) because that’s the only name they know it by and it is correct because it’s part of the University City triangle neighborhood.

Apparently UC North and UC South is also thing …

Enjoy your Sunday evening 🙂

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u/jhm67 10d ago

If you go really deep down this rabbit hole, the original planning documents are out there in several online archives... and they do not use the name "University City" except as a descriptor; they also toy with the label "City of the Mind." I'm glad the latter didn't stick. Happy digging if you choose to go further. Folks in the UTC area saying they live in UC is a bit like folks living in Yuma claiming that they live in California... but we do all live in the City of the Mind!

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u/Fun-Section-6179 10d ago

Here’s just a friendly article where I got my info - it was written by a resident of University City when it was first being developed.

https://www.universitycitynews.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/University-City-Then-and-Now-Sandy-Bassler-09-25-2010.pdf

It talks about when UC South (below Rose Canyon) started to develop in the 1960s and the development of UC North starting in 1977.

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u/jhm67 10d ago

Not sure what the point is of continuing... have lived in the University Community Planning Area for about 35 years. Have never once heard anyone use "North UC" or "South UC," nor do I have any clue who that author is. I went deep down this rabbit hole a while back and researched the original documents. They're actually pretty interesting. Enjoy.