By Blake Nelson / The San Diego Union-Tribune / September 9, 2024
A real estate developer is suing to block San Diego from creating a shelter by the airport, arguing that a decades-old agreement between the city and federal government prohibits homeless services at the H Barracks site.
The lawsuit was filed Friday in San Diego Superior Court by McMillin-NTC, a limited liability company and an offshoot of Corky McMillin Cos. which remade the local Naval Training Center into the business and cultural hub known as Liberty Station. McMillin believes plans to use the empty lot as a place for hundreds of homeless people to sleep imperils a new hotel.
“The H-Barracks site cannot be legally used for homeless parking, homeless sheltering, or homeless services,” the lawsuit said. Those additions “will have adverse impacts on the existing hotels on the nearby Liberty Station property and on the third hotel to be built by McMillin in that vicinity.”
The filing throws another roadblock at efforts to expand the city’s overtaxed (and shrinking) shelter system amid growing homelessness. San Diego leaders had hoped to open nearly 200 parking spaces for residents to sleep in their vehicles by early next year, and the California Coastal Commission, which unanimously approved the project over the summer, further said the city was allowed to later install large tents that together could hold 600 people.
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Maybe Bridgette Browning can organize those homeless into union hotel workers.
Well, I wasn’t sure before, but if placing this shelter there gives McMillin even one bit of heartburn, that would be enough for me to support it. It’s like the devil complaining it’s too hot.
I like the way you think Geoff! Anything that upsets the whining McMillin company must be a good thing.