San Diego’s funding shortfall for infrastructure projects surpassed $5 billion this winter for the first time—a nearly 20 percent jump driven by sharply increasing needs for parks projects, streetlight upgrades, and flood prevention, according to La Jolla Light.
The city’s infrastructure backlog, which is the gap between projected infrastructure needs over the next five years and the funding available for them, climbed from $4.32 billion last winter to $5.17 billion.
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