Mira Mesa

by Pam Stevens

Overview

Mira Mesa is a suburban community in the northern part of the city of San Diego with many qualities of a small town. Mira Mesa is San Diego's largest suburb, with over 75,000 residents, stretching from Marine Corps Air Station Miramar on the south to Los Peñasquitos Canyon Preserve on the north, and from I—15 on the east to I—805 on the west. When rapid growth in the early 1970s transformed the mesa from rocks and rattlesnakes to tract homes, there were no schools, parks, or other facilities, not even a grocery store. Residents held rallies and marches, and the first schools in Mira Mesa were created inside houses leased from developers. Mira Mesa today is a happily multiethnic community that includes schools, parks, a library, industrial and retail centers, and several supermarkets.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780738582030
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	04/11/2011
Series:	Images of America Series
Pages:	128
Product dimensions:	6.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Pam Stevens is a freelance author, librarian, and active volunteer with the Mira Mesa Town Council and other civic groups in Mira Mesa, where she and her husband, Jeff, have lived in the same house since 1980. Their two daughters grew up in Mira Mesa. A regular contributor to Mira Mesa Living magazine, Pam wrote for the Mira Mesa/Scripps Ranch Sentinel from 1982 until it ceased publication in 2009.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 6

Introduction 7

1 Before the Beginning 9

2 Affordable Homes-But Not Even A Grocery Store 17

3 School Come To Mira Mesa 31

4 "I Love Mira Mesa" 47

5 Growing Pains 69

6 Mira Mesa Matures 87

7 Into the 21st Century 107

Bibliography 127