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San Diego guides
Written against what San Diego actually publishes, not adapted from another city by swapping the name. Every figure in them is a count we ran, stamped with the window it covers.
How to read a San Diego reportWhat the city publishes, what the region publishes, and why this city's counts carry a date the others do not.Why this city's numbers say when they were takenSan Diego publishes its whole transactional record as files with no way to query them. So this report holds a copy, and tells you how old it is.What a San Diego assessment actually isAnchored to the last sale, capped at about two per cent a year, and published as one roll rather than a run of years. Why a seller's bill says nothing about a buyer's.What San Diego files every dayFive lists from the city's permit file, keyed on the day an approval was issued rather than the day it was asked for.Where to go when the report stopsThe city's own portal, the region's services and the county's assessor. Every link here is the body's own page.Two registers San Diego keeps that most cities do notWho is trading on the block, and how much of the street is let by the night.The words San Diego usesAPN, community plan, base zone, NIBRS, SANDAG — what each means on the record, and which body wrote it.What San Diego's records do not sayThe registers this city publishes and this report cannot read, the ones that stopped, and what it does instead of pretending.