City's Land Use and Housing Committee declined to offer a recommendation and called for comprehensive plan
A proposal to prohibit homeless encampments on public land in the city of San Diego got a lukewarm response Thursday from a City Council committee, which agreed to move the item to the full City Council, but without a recommendation., along with a companion information piece that called for a comprehensive plan that included expanding congregate and non-congregate shelters options, dedicated outreach, consistent enforcement and other items.
“Data clearly shows our city’s available shelters are far from that amount needed to support the needs of the unhoused and even allow this to be enforced on an ongoing basis,” he said. “It leaves me concerned that if this were adopted, we would be rushing through this not only without addressing the actual issues, but rather possibly exacerbating them instead.”
LaCava questioned why a proposed 11-page ordinance was needed when existing laws already prohibit people from camping on sidewalks, and he said a more narrowly focused ordinance probably would have easily passed that day. “Every day we have to walk over people who are overdosing,” said downtown resident Jarvis Leverson. “I walk my children by people smoking meth.”
Among speakers in opposition was Jordan Beane, chief of staff for the San Diego Regional Task Force on Homelessness. Homeless advocate Michael McConnell said the proposal was unnecessary and could make the situation worse.
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