Letter to the Editor Polo Fields

City of San Diego to Rule on Removing Polo Fields Deed Restriction Monday

10/22/2025
RSF Post
Field #5 is not visible from Via de la Valle, but typical weekday practices run from early afternoon until dark with noise, dust and traffic generated by hundreds of cars coming and going.

The City of San Diego is meeting Monday, October 27 to decide the fate of the San Dieguito River Valley. This is your chance to let City leaders know how much the open space in our community means to you.

Surf Sports has been moving swiftly and behind closed doors to remove the deed restrictions to the former polo fields and negotiate an addendum to their lease that would hand them unbridled control of the City-owned fields with no end date – and allow them to continue to reap vast profits from exploitation of public land. None of these maneuvers benefit the surrounding communities or the taxpayers.

Location: City Council Chambers, 12th Floor, 202 C Street, San Diego
Date: Monday, October 27
Time: 2:00 p.m.

This is the City’s attempt to prevent the court from adjudicating a lawsuit brought against the City and Surf Sports to determine whether both violated the deed restrictions which both the City and Surf freely agreed to when they leased the land. The City’s Reneging on the agreement would remove all legal safeguards from Surf’s future exploitation of the fields, completely eviscerating the legal protections that were expressly for the benefit of communities neighboring the fields. Article Link here.

Let’s pack the City Council Chambers and show the City that we won’t stand for a land grab by millionaire corporate investors.

• Rally your neighbors and your community to write to each City Council Member now. Names and email addresses can be found here.
• Write Public Comment on non-agenda for October 21 meeting. Link here.
• Write Public Comment for the agenda item for October 27. Link here.
• Speak in person on October 27. We need fresh voices. Sign up to speak here.

Area residents are impacted on both eastbound and westbound lanes due to excessive traffic on Via de la Valle as hundreds of cars make their way to the fields.

Join the cities of Del Mar, Solana Beach, the Rancho Santa Fe Association HOA, community planning groups, environmental organizations, homeowners associations, and thousands of individuals and families who have voiced their opposition to San Diego’s plan to gut the Grant Deed restrictions.

Click here to sign the petition.
Questions? Or to get involved, contact the Coalition here.


With gratitude,
Coalition to Preserve the Polo Fields