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Posted on 08/12/2021 6:13:43 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A 40-acre parcel of land sitting just outside Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC) is home to hundreds of the city’s homeless population.
The homeless encampment has grown over the last year as the coronavirus pandemic severely impacted the city’s most vulnerable populations, but the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is demanding the city and the airport to clear the site.
“The largest concentration of homeless residents in our city right now in this particular encampment, the numbers fluctuate, but estimated around 300,” said Councilmember Raul Peralez.
“The city was not abating encampments unless they were in a public right of way throughout the pandemic, we didn’t start to manage and abating them until just a few months ago.”
The property where the encampment is located sits between West Taylor and West Hedding Streets near Columbus Park.
The land is owned by the city and purchased with federal funds.
If the encampment is not cleared, the airport could end up losing millions of dollars in federal funding.
“Which is not something that was a surprise to us, we know there used to be homes here, those homes were demolished and funding for that came through the federal government,” said Peralez.
“And we’re not allowed to have people occupy this area and that would include those that are homeless.”
Efforts to clear out the encampment site include a three-phased approach:
Stage 1: Clear out approximately 10 acres between West Hedding and Asbury streets, and from Coleman Avenue to Walnut Street between August and November.
Stage 2: Clear out approximately 15 acres between West Hedding and Asbury streets, and from Walnut and Spring streets between January and April 2022.
Stage 3: Clear out approximately 18 acres between West Hedding and Asbury streets, and from Spring Street to the Guadalupe River Trail between May and June 2022.
San Jose airport gets nearly $55.5M in federal funding for COVID-19 recovery The airport tells KRON4 News in a statement:
“The Airport has worked closely with our partners in several City Departments to develop a revised plan that will result in the City taking a more immediately active role in relocating the homeless to a property that is aligned with City zoning for the purposes of residential use, as requested by the FAA.”
“Nothing is formalized just yet, there are a lot of discussions,” said Peralez.
“We recognize the major challenge there but we do have opportunities and we’re working on some opportunities for tiny housing nearby on Taylor Street,” Peralez added.
“And so we have opportunities to try and relocate people, that’s going to be a major goal of ours.”
FAA demands Bay Area’s largest homeless camp be dismantled In addition to the phased approach, a fence will be built around the property once it is cleared out to stop new people from moving in.
The city and airport have invited the FAA to tour the encampment site to better understand the magnitude of the situation.
In a statement to KRON4 News, the FAA says “On Aug. 4, the FAA approved the city of San Jose’s Corrective Action Plan to address the homeless encampment at the Norman Y. Mineta San Jose International Airport.”
“This is not uncommon in this particular area,” said Peralez.
“And so it’s a recurring issue as we know, not only in this area, it’s a recurring issue really all across the city and we’re not unique,” Peralez added.
“Here we have a particularly large challenge now.”
Fentanyl, then Bulldozers.
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It’s disgusting. You can smell it while driving in HWY 101. Horrible.
4 Buldozers, volunteers and 1 Saturday is all that is needed.
I like that plan.
LA was able to clear just as many homeless tents from Venice Beach over the course of a week. Why does San Jose need 10 months??
Nukes and F-15s.
What part of 101?
Turn’em under and plant flowers.
Airdrop job applications on them to drive them off...
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Each member of the city government has to take one homeless person and promise to house in their own home. Mayor has to take 3.
When I lived in Hawaii in 2011, there was a huge homeless camp on the southwest shore. Probably 500-600 folks. With no announcement or warning authorities showed up at 1am one Saturday. By nightfall everyone was gone and all tents and shacks were burning piles. I never learned what happened to those people.
Point is, it shouldn’t take until mid 2022 to clean up their problem.
A fence?
21 July 2021 EXCLUSIVE: ‘We’re in a state of emergency!’ Furious Venice Beach residents say enough is enough as the homeless continue to swarm the boardwalk less than a week after the city conducted massive clean-up to clear out encampments
less than a week after the clean-up efforts, the homeless were back setting up their tents on the beach and swarming the tourist-filled boardwalk
Not gonna read the article, but my guess is Soylent Green??
With some political stones, it could done by tomorrow sunset...
One front end loader working all night plus one Soylent Green factory producing vaccines, and problem solved!
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