I am absolutely shocked that they were able to implement this policy. I would have thought that some state agency would have stepped in to stop it or sue the city, etc.
It does kind of help that Coronado is an island with a rather long bridge as the primary access
Make it easy for people to encamp and they encamp. Difficult and they find ways not too.
LOL, Coronado is basically a private island, all they’ll do is push them to the San Diego beach towns which are already jammed with homeless and lowlife.
> Coronado Mayor Richard Bailey (R) said… <
How is this mayor so different from those in San Francisco, Chicago, etc.?
Oh, wait. I see it. Never mind.
there used to be fines for vagrancy, and the cops woudl escort folks out of town- that is a thing of the past in some places-
Create incentives for people to be homeless, and they will be. Create disincentives and they will find a way not to be. It’s not rocket science.
So they bus them to other locations, lol.
Amazing what you can do when you actually try to DO something.
I lived in Coronado, I think I was the only local in my age group that still had a driver’s license, somehow I didn’t get busted that night of driving our orange van down the sidewalks.
People trying to exit the restaurants sure seemed startled before they jumped out of the way.
When I was growing up in Santa Barbara in the late ‘70s - early ‘80s they too had an aggressive approach to the lawless homeless. The county Sheriff would round them up (usually by the “fig tree”) and drop them off at the Ventura county line 25 miles away. Since the city of Ventura was only 2-3 miles from the county line they just went there instead. Brilliant plan.
Now that the SB city council is full of left wing bleeding hearts and psychos, when I visit my family there I can’t walk down lower to mid State street without being accosted, yelled at or begged for money and drugs by filthy degenerate losers. Most of them able bodies young people.
In defense of the island office holders, Democrats had told
them that the island might tip over if too many homeless ran
to one side of the island.
Shouldn’t this and other low lying islands be protected by
some Democrat inspired legislation, protecting them from
sinking in the next 20 years as waters rise fifty feet? /s
Isn’t that raciss or something?