San Diego

The San Diego City Council on Monday voted unanimously to place the proposed 5,100-acre La Jolla Valley development on the November ballot for citywide approval.

The development would become the second project requiring voter approval since the passage of Proposition A, the slow-growth measure that calls for a citywide vote for every project slated for the city’s so-called urban reserve, thousands of acres in San Diego’s northern tier that are theoretically off limits to builders. The first was a land swap between the city and Genstar Development, a trade that added land to Penasquitos Canyon Preserve.

It was the plans for La Jolla Valley that inspired Proposition A in 1985. After the City Council approved the project, slow-growth advocates and environmentalists mounted an initiative campaign that takes those decisions in the urban reserve away from the elected officials and puts them up directly before the voters.

The La Jolla Valley ballot measure for November is the same plan approved by the council, city planning officials said. It provides for construction of a 750-acre industrial park and a 1,000-acre Christian university. Housing built on the balance of the property, which is owned by University Development Inc., a subsidiary of Campus Crusade for Christ, cannot be constructed until after 1995.

Under Proposition A, the city will pay about $15,000 for the La Jolla Valley proposal to be placed on the November ballot, when voters will fill four City Council seats.