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kettnerandvine.com Please sign and share at chng.it/ZdZKbR... Everyone in attendance was strongly against Kettner and Vine location clearly being the wrong location for the largest ever homeless facility in San Diego.
Help us relocate this facility away from schools, residences, businesses and areas of tourism.
We have a moral obligation to help the homeless. However, we are not obligated to cede our public health, safety and business/residential neighborhoods to achieve this objective.
San Diego City Attorney finds flaws in lease proposal of mega-shelter for Kettner and Vine
In a new report, the City Attorney's Office pointed out several unresolved issues with entering into a 30-year lease for a 1,000-bed shelter.
Days after San Diego's Independent Budget Analyst questioned the finances behind Mayor Todd Gloria's proposal to enter into a 30-year lease for a 1,000-bed homeless shelter, the City Attorney has now come forward with potential legal issues if the city moves forward as is.
Should San Diego lease Kettner and Vine warehouse into a massive homeless shelter?
Lynn Reaser, economist
NO: There are shades of 101 Ash St. The 1963 building may well have lead and asbestos problems. Before starting, the site needs to certified for fire safety standards as to whether 1,000 people can be housed there. Building systems are old, tired and neglected. Food preparation, dining areas and sanitation systems are needed. In all - there’s not much quality of life for the mass of people crammed into 65,000 square feet with minimal privacy.
This is Lynn Reaser’s final Econometer. She died Tuesday. She was a nationally revered economist.
James Hamilton, UC San Diego
NO: The core problem is substance abuse and mental illness, not a shortage of beds. We need to clearly delineate that camping on a public sidewalk is prohibited and that offenders will be forced to receive treatment for their underlying problems. I’m very much in favor of a big commitment of funds to make sure we have a place to help the people who need it. But building shelters without providing support and enforcement is not going to solve the problem.
Bob Rauch, R.A. Rauch & Associates
NO: A better answer to the homeless crisis is the Sunbreak Ranch concept. It would serve as a central navigation center designed to house people, identify their needs, and move them with care and proper treatment to more permanent housing or treatment centers. It is not site-specific; it would be an emergency “triage center” where everyone in need would have a clean, healthy, safe, secure place and bed. It would be a solution, not a Band-Aid.
The scenario is all too familiar: Gloria is exuberant about a land use proposal, and he wants it to happen fast. Maybe the estimated costs of tenant improvements seemed reasonable (101 Ash Street). Or maybe the winner of a bidding process was an unknown player with no track record (Midway Rising).
Hasty decisions skip over the tedious work of careful analysis -who has the time? Then, inexorably, fissures surface. Asbestos that nobody looked for made 101 Ash uninhabitable. The sudden discovery of a buried sewage line scrambled Midway Rising’s Sports Arena development plans.
Opposition to the Middletown 1,000-bed campus was swift. Pop-up protests at the site drew media coverage. Public comments before three closed-door Council sessions were overwhelmingly negative. Folks who have concerns now include the Independent Budget Analyst (IBA) and City Attorney Mara Elliott. Their forceful statements days before the Council’s July 22 vote have landed like a one-two punch.
On July 15, the IBA report identified flaws that evoked painful memories: lack of due diligence, no independent appraisal, overpaying in the current market. Four days later, Elliott piled on more questions about the legality of rushing to sign a 30-year lease that favors the seller of an “as-is” property.
But the most ominous news for Gloria may be the unprecedented speed and sophistication of a grassroots campaign to thwart him.
“Kettner and Vine” started out as a group of Middletown neighbors who organized in early April. Today, it is a full-fledged campaign with a comprehensive website (kettnerandvine.com) and financial support from across the city.
The Kettner and Vine neighbors know the property well. They have serious concerns about the project’s viability, starting with public safety.
“That is a very dangerous intersection,” Herbert said. “I-5 traffic exits right onto Kettner. On any given day, 25,000 cars zoom by at 55 miles an hour. People will try to cross Kettner to get to the shelter, and there will be accidents and probably fatalities.”
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