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Naturally Occurring Affordable Housing Volume 22, No. 9 Sering the Heart of San Diego September|2021 San Diego Junior Theatre Presents Its 74th Season See page 11 Digital Copy Homelessness - No Quick Fix San Diego Men’s Professional The Misguided Bike Lane Celebrating Mission Hills 1 Tennis Tournament Takes Place 3 Dilemma 4 New Normal 8 A Publication by Presidio Communications• ©MMXX PresidioSentinel.com• 1 Homeowners and Residents Boys & Girls Club of Greater San Diego Open Men’s Spectacular Fall Across the State Protest SB10 2 San Diego Reopens 3 Professional Tennis 3 Celebrations 8 Tournament Mattress Recycling San Diego Rescue Mission The Old Globe Presents San Diego Watercolor Celebrates Fifth Year 12 Receives Grant 14 “The Gardens of Anuncia” 10 Society’s September Exhibit 15 Featured Stories Featured Events Homelessness – No Quick Fix By Patty Ducey-Brooks This past month, the Mission programs (ie. Pathfinders, McAllister Institute Hills Business Improvement and Alpha Project), I learned early on that there District (MHBID) was the is no quick fix to people who choose a life of lead organizer of a forum on destruction. I have worked with very successful homelessness: the cause, effects, men and women who succumbed to drug and and options for addressing this alcohol to deal with work and life stressors. growing issue for San Diego, and Some recovered. Some didn’t. all its respective communities. I have also worked with various veteran’s group, Present for this event was including Veterans Village of San Diego (VVSD), Mayor Todd Gloria, Councilman which has a housing facility on Pacific Highway. Stephen Whitburn, and people Having hired some of their staff over the years, from the City and County who are working and assisted with fundraising efforts, I’ve learned daily on homelessness. They include Dijana that they assist veterans with a variety of issues, Beck, chief agency operations for the County of including PTSD, other forms of mental health, San Diego Office of Homeless Solutions; Brian and drug and alcohol related issues. Working Gruters, associate director of Outreach, PATH with this group helped me to see that housing A shopping cart contains a homeless (People Assisting The Homeless); Aisha Daniels, alone can’t fix the problem. It requires the right person’s valuables. program manager, Mobile Homelessness mental health services and a lot of support. Resolution Team (MHRT), PATH; Jonathan According to the VVSD mission: “We address the reasons behind homelessness, especially Herrera, special programs manager & senior unique legal needs of veterans through ongoing mental health, and substance abuse. policy advisor, Homeless Housing Innovations legal self-help clinics, veteran oriented seminars, What I didn’t hear during the forum is how Division, San Diego Housing Commission; and employment, entrepreneurship, and mentorship this is being addressed. So, without appearing Captain Shawn Takeuchi, Homeless Outreach which empower and improve the lives of veterans grateful for the effort of the individuals and Team (HOT), San Diego Police Department. and their families.” groups working on homelessness, we also need What became obvious is that there is a much They also advocate to help veterans aid and to ask, “How do we integrate the necessary more concerted effort between the City and assist each other, and to provide unique, direct services and programs that should be readily County to address homelessness. However, programs and services to meet the needs of available?” there isn’t yet a fully integrated approach. That’s veterans. We should start with the County of San Diego because the people who are homeless represent According to Father Joe’s Villages, which was Health & Human Services Department, who different types of problems and challenges. founded by Father Joe Carroll, there are many has a key role in mental health and drug and Though Mayor Gloria emphasized that creating faces of homelessness: people overcoming rehab programs funded by the County. We need housing is the key solution, the source of the substance-use disorder, those living with mental to know what is available and how the existing problem still exists. Respectfully, the people who illness, veterans struggling to readjust to civilian non-profit organizations, such as VVSD and are on the streets are there for different reasons. life, and families who can’t make ends meet. Father’s Joe Villages, are being incorporated into Some are due to employment (minimal and/or If it’s not obvious, there is no “quick fix,” which this overall effort. lack of), some are due to mental health issues all of the organizations noted above have shared Let’s not forget about the groups that have been (including PTSD), some are drug and alcohol with me. in existence for upward of 50 years serving the dependency related, and some homeless prefer Though it is worth acknowledging the homeless, and those with special needs. to live on the streets. collaboration between the City and County to Thanks to the Mission Hills BID for organizing Having been closely aligned over the years focus on the homeless, we should also point out this event, and to facilitator J Daniel Geddes, co- with various Alcohol and Drug Recovery that sometimes we need to get very serious about chair of MH BID’s Homeless Adhoc Committee. PresidioSentinel.com • 2 Local News ©A Publication of Presidio Communications • September 2021 Homeowners and Residents Across the State Protest SB10 By Danna Givot From San Diego to Mt. Shasta, homeowners and their representatives In fact, California has historically acknowledged that ADUs are are speaking out against the state legislature’s ill-conceived effort housing units. It’s right there, in black-and-white, in the state’s 2020 ADU to eliminate single-family zoning. I’m adding my voice to that Handbook. If an ADU is defined as a housing unit in that state regulation, tidal wave of opposition because I’m convinced that SB 10 also it must also be considered a housing unit in SB 10, especially because presents an ethical and probably indefensible legal problem for both documents address the issue of ADUs on single-family zoned lots. our elected officials. I’m not a lawyer, but I’m sure the state legislature cannot — and must not I’ve read the fine print in SB 10, and there’s no doubt that the proposed — arbitrarily decide when an ADU is or isn’t considered a housing unit. law allows the construction of ten housing units on a single-family lot, That’s what SB 10 would do. Judges reject that kind of faulty reasoning as plus four additional “Accessory Dwelling Units” (also known as ADUs “arbitrary and capricious abuse of discretion.” We non-lawyers call it what or “granny flats”). That’s a total of 14 housing units, on one parcel, in a it is: using word-salad to hide the facts, mislead the public, and pave the single-family neighborhood like mine. way for the stealth elimination of single-family zoning. Those are the facts, even though the author of SB 10 tried to minimize I urge all our state legislators to closely read SB 10’s language. Not the negative impact of his proposal by not counting the four additional counting ADUs is unethical and possibly legally indefensible! When you structures as “housing units”. Why the sleight of hand? I think there’s understand the negative and irreversible impact SB 10 will have on all an obvious answer: city councils that want to wipe out single-family communities in your districts, I know you’ll join me and millions of other zoning can avoid public hearings and environmental reviews for projects Californians in our unwavering opposition to SB 10. with up to ten living units, but that scrutiny is required for projects with Danna Givot is a San Diego homeowner, community activist, and more than ten units volunteer with Neighbors For A Better San Diego (www.nfabsd.org). San Diego’s Stealth Government: Read the Fine Print By Kate Callen Political troubadour Pete Seeger had an apt formula for comparing Enter stealth government. education and experience: “Education is when you read the fine print. Politicians who shrink from facing public resistance find ways to evade Experience is what you get when you don’t.” it. They hold town halls where only “pre-selected” questions are answered. For decades now, San Diegans unschooled in reading the fine print And they keep controversial projects out of sight by shepherding them have lost hundreds of millions of dollars to painful experience: the public through the underground passages of planning group subcommittees and pension fiasco, the Chargers ticket guarantee fiasco, and more recently, hand-picked commissions. the 101 Ash Street and inflated hotel purchase fiascos. That’s what happened with North Park’s 30th Street Bike Lanes, which Each of these scandals began as a City Hall proposal sold quickly to a came as a complete shock to the North Park community when then- trusting public. Each erupted when taxpayers learned too late that they Mayor Kevin Faulconer abruptly announced in May 2019 that they were should have read the fine print, paid closer attention earlier, and asked a done deal. tough questions. Another stealth trick is to stash radical land use measures in legislative And now a batch of stealth government ploys is costing San Diegans undergrowth. When the City Council rewrote the “granny flat” ordinance two commodities that are as precious and finite as money: public road last fall, staff said the changes were simply putting San Diego “in space and neighborhood open space. compliance with state law.” Buried in the staff report were giveaways Two consecutive YIMBY mayors, goaded by YIMBY lobbyists with major to developers that far exceeded state codes: allowances for multiple development funding – nearly 80 percent of Circulate SD’s “Corporate rental units on single family lots with no required parking, landscaping, Members” work in the land use sector – chose to invest millions in bike or setbacks.
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