The San Diego City Council voted 6-2 Tuesday to again set up the winter homeless shelter downtown despite a choice of 27 proposed sites citywide. The shelter will either be located at 15th Street and Island Avenue or at 13th and F streets in East Village. The site at 15th Street and Island Avenue is where the shelter was located last year. Rachel Laing, a spokeswoman for Mayor Jerry Sanders\u2019 office, said that OliverMc-Millan, the company that allowed the city to previously use that site, has not committed to renew its contract with the city again this year \u2014 making the other proposed site a more-than-likely candidate as this year\u2019s shelter. “We\u2019ve been hopping from place to place based on availability,” Laing said. “It\u2019s been an annual contract with the landowners.” The process of selecting a site for the shelter, which will be open from December through March, encountered a wrinkle this year. In years past, the mayor\u2019s office has submitted a list of potential shelter sites to the City Council, from which councilmembers chose a location. But that is not exactly how things went this year. “This year, the council didn\u2019t vote and instead said it would like citywide options,” Laing said. “These options were all in the downtown area and councilmembers didn\u2019t think that was fair. [They said] homelessness is a regional, citywide problem.” On Aug. 21, the mayor\u2019s chief operations officer sent members of the City Council a memo asking for their input on potential sites in their respective district that met the criteria for the temporary shelter, including a large, flat expanse of land and access to utilities. Every member but District 8 Councilman Ben Hueso responded to the memo, but none provided proposed sites within their own districts. “The reason that all the options given were downtown was because of proximity to existing services,” Laing said. After receiving those responses, the mayor\u2019s office provided an additional 10 sites to city council outside the downtown area. The mayor\u2019s office originally provided a list of 17 sites. “Normally it happens on the first go-round,” Laing said. “But there are several new councilmembers here.” Of the 10 sites considered in District 2 \u2014 of which Ocean Beach and Point Loma are a part \u2014 all of them were near downtown. Locations included Third Avenue and B Street, 12th Avenue and K Street, Kettner Boulevard and Washington Street, Pacific Highway between Palm and Laurel streets, 17th Street and Imperial Avenue, 17th and G streets, 17th and Market streets, Front and Cedar streets, Broadway and 16th Street and Ash Street between State and Union streets.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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