The Seal Beach City Council unanimously adopted an ordinance Monday night, June 10, that adds homeless shelters to the list of uses allowed in the Boeing Integrated Defense Systems Specific Plan. The item was on the consent calendar and was approved without discussion.
That doesn’t mean a shelter will be built, it simply adds an emergency shelter to the list of allowed uses of the land.
According to City Attorney Quinn Barrow, a homeless shelters would be limited to specific areas of the property.
The item had been the subject of a public hearing at the previous council meeting on Wednesday, May 29, when the ordinance was introduced. At that time, no members of the public spoke at the hearing.
Previously, city officials had reportedly been looking at the Accurate Storage area, located across the street from Seal Beach Police Department headquarters on Aldolfo Lopez, and adjacent to the gated neighborhood of Heron Point, as one site under consideration for rezoning to allow emergency shelters.
Instead, however, the council introduced an ordinance that rezoned the industrial property for high-density residential housing on Wednesday, May 29.
In a separate action, the council added homeless shelters (officially called emergency shelters) to the list of uses allowed on the Boeing property on Seal Beach Boulevard.
Some Seal Beach residents were concerned about the possibility that a homeless shelter might be built in Seal Beach. However, no one has submitted plans to build a shelter in Seal Beach.
While state law requires the city of Seal Beach to identify an area where a shelter would be permitted, the law cannot compel a property owner to actually build a homeless shelter.
A recent sunnews.org poll found 82 percent of poll participants opposed a homeless shelter in Seal Beach. Eighteen percent supported a homeless shelter. Yes or no were the only options in that poll. The 2013 results were different from a 2010 sunnews.org poll on the same subject. At that time, 38 percent of those polls thought a homeless shelter was “a good idea,” 46 percent thought it was “a bad idea” and 15 percent did not know.
The Seal Beach City Council unanimously adopted an ordinance Monday night, June 10, that adds homeless shelters to the list of uses allowed in the Boeing Integrated Defense Systems Specific Plan. The item was on the consent calendar and was approved without discussion.
That doesn’t mean a shelter will be built, it simply adds an emergency shelter to the list of allowed uses of the land.
According to City Attorney Quinn Barrow, a homeless shelters would be limited to specific areas of the property.
The item had been the subject of a public hearing at the previous council meeting on Wednesday, May 29, when the ordinance was introduced. At that time, no members of the public spoke at the hearing.
Previously, city officials had reportedly been looking at the Accurate Storage area, located across the street from Seal Beach Police Department headquarters on Aldolfo Lopez, and adjacent to the gated neighborhood of Heron Point, as one site under consideration for rezoning to allow emergency shelters.
Instead, however, the council introduced an ordinance that rezoned the industrial property for high-density residential housing on Wednesday, May 29.
In a separate action, the council added homeless shelters (officially called emergency shelters) to the list of uses allowed on the Boeing property on Seal Beach Boulevard.
Some Seal Beach residents were concerned about the possibility that a homeless shelter might be built in Seal Beach. However, no one has submitted plans to build a shelter in Seal Beach.
While state law requires the city of Seal Beach to identify an area where a shelter would be permitted, the law cannot compel a property owner to actually build a homeless shelter.
A recent sunnews.org poll found 82 percent of poll participants opposed a homeless shelter in Seal Beach. Eighteen percent supported a homeless shelter. Yes or no were the only options in that poll. The 2013 results were different from a 2010 sunnews.org poll on the same subject. At that time, 38 percent of those polls thought a homeless shelter was “a good idea,” 46 percent thought it was “a bad idea” and 15 percent did not know.
