[CaliNative]

These are the surfaces that actually effect air travel. If one is breached the FAA needs to redo the landing procedures for aircraft coming in during bad weather, likely requiring higher visibility minimums. That's bad because if aircraft can't land on Rwy 27 they have to land on Rwy 9, but there's a significant segment of aircraft operation out of KSAN that can't take off on Rwy 9 because they can't make it over Banker's Hill. So then we've got aircraft trying to take off and land in opposite directions, which causes nightmares of delays.

Still, you can see that you could build structures up to 600'-700' in Horton Plaza without effecting air traffic into KSAN, and there are really no height restrictions on the Seaport Village area at all.[/QUOTE]

So what agency sets the height limit? The city? The FAA? Is the 500' height limit a law, or just an informal agreement? You say a 600 or 700' building could be built near Horton or even taller near Seaport Village that would not interfere with traffic. Where would a developer need to go to get permission or an exemption to build taller? It would be nice to have at least a few buildings well above 500' so we don't have a plateau skyline.