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Sept. 26 is the day that the County Board of Supervisors is expected to consider the Newland Sierra project. It’s kind of like what vacation rental companies did to the new law the city of San Diego just passed. If the county delayed a vote until then and then the measure passed, final say on the Newland project would be put off until the next election. Other Projects Outside the County’s Plan Face Legal Fight Environmental and community groups are suing the county over its July decision to greenlight large housing developments that required amendments to the county’s long-term outline for future growth and development. The Democratic Party this week issued an endorsement in one and decided to reconsider an endorsement it already made in the other. The party on Tuesday endorsed San Ysidro School Board Member Antonio Martinez in his bid to replace termed-out Councilman David Alvarez in the 8th Council district, which includes Barrio Logan, San Ysidro and Otay Mesa. The party sets a high bar for any endorsement: Candidates need more than 60 percent of the votes of the party’s delegates. Martinez won endorsements from Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, state Sen. Ben Hueso (who used to represent the Council district), and Rep. Juan Vargas. The Democratic Party this week declined to endorse the initiative. But, he’s still eligible to run for City Council, and that’s just what he’s doing.

San Diego County Registrar of Voters Michael Vu has determined there were insufficient signatures to put a measure on the November ballot that sought to force county elections to go to November runoffs no matter how well a candidate does in a primary election. Gloria’s bill had said that such a petition to change the county law would need to be signed by “10 percent of the qualified electors in the county.” That is, 10 percent of all voters, or about 166,000 people. State law normally requires that initiatives collect signatures from 10 percent of voters who voted in the previous election. On the one hand: Vu is reading the law by its word. I hear things throughout the week and then try to cram all my reporting about them into two hours of work on a Friday. Would you agree you’ve brought some change to leadership of the local labor movement that makes it easier to collaborate with business groups? Previously, the Labor Council leader was elected by its board. This week, they agreed to pay a partnership that controls the lease of land behind the Convention Center more than $33 million. Alvarez is saying he’s concerned about city money funding a political objective of the ballot initiative’s supporters. She will have to tell the city clerk whether not 50 percent plus one vote would be enough for the measure to pass.