DECEPTIVE

ANTI-ONE PASEO REFERENDUM DRIVE FUELS RECORD

NUMBER OF SIGNATURE-WITHDRAWAL REQUESTS
City Clerk received unprecedented 29,550 forms seeking to rescind support for petition
San Diegans for Jobs and Sustainable Communities, with major funding by Kilroy Realty,
today announced that the City Clerk has received an unprecedented 29,550 signature-
withdrawal forms for the referendum petition being circulated by One Paseo opponents.

One Paseo was approved with a 7-2 bipartisan vote of the San Diego City Council in
February, following six years of community engagement by developer Kilroy Realty and
public input that resulted in numerous refinements to the One Paseo plan. The project
includes homes, shops and offices in a walkable main street environment on 23 acres in
Carmel Valley.

The highly deceptive referendum signature-gathering effort to overturn the City Council
approval was bankrolled by Orange County-based Donahue Schriber, the owner of an
adjacent retail center. It follows Donahue Schribers spending millions of dollars on
lobbying to block One Paseos approval by the City Council.

Should the referendum be certified with the necessary 34,000 valid signatures, the City
Council would be required to reconsider the issue and either to overturn its approval or
place the issue on an upcoming ballot.

Among the documented false statements made by Donahue Schribers referendum
signature-gatherers were that One Paseo will be built with taxpayer dollars; that its being
built on a wetland or that it threatens endangered species; that its going to destroy an
existing park; that it will prevent the city from being able to afford a Chargers stadium; and
that the referendum petition is actually a petition to support affordable housing.

The irony in these misrepresentations is that One Paseo will be the most environmentally
sustainable project ever built in San Diego, said Rachel Laing, spokesperson for One Paseo.
This project will transform a vacant graded lot into acres of public open space, provide
affordable housing, create thousands of jobs and generate hundreds of millions of dollars in
economic activity all via private investment.

The number of signature withdrawals San Diegans submitted to the City Clerk is 10 times
the number of withdrawals turned in for the recent minimum wage referendum, which had
previously held the signature-withdrawal record in the city with 2,900 rescissions.

"Clearly, San Diegans in large numbers felt compelled to withdraw their signatures from
the referendum petition once they learned more about One Paseo," said Laing. "Were
thankful so many San Diegans chose to listen to and consider the facts about this important
and iconic smart-growth project and took the time to rescind their signatures if they felt
theyd been misled."

"The fact is, the more people know about One Paseo, the more inclined they are to support
it."

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