STOP THE D2 and D10 ASSAULT!

The City fast-tracked EIH ( also known as Bridge Housing, Tiny Homes, and even Covid Dorms for a time) at the corner of Bernal and Monterey under the guise of the Covid-19 health emergency, ignoring the fact that the site had failed CEQA and didn't meet their purported site requirements.  Despite recorded commitments to the adjacent neighborhoods that the site would support only sleeping cabins for 20,  the Bernal site site has since been expanded to 78.  Can you say bait and switch? 

To compound this assault on D2 and D10:

• They have added a second site less than 1/2 a mile away at Rue Ferrari with the plan to house an additional 124 homeless and an expansion of the Rue Ferrari project to include 100 additional beds! This inherently doubled the size to 224.

• Despite promises by Sergio Jimenez and the entire San Jose City Council that these sites and their impacts would be evenly distributed amongst the districts, the City now is building a new EIH to be located at Branham and Monterey Road, approximately 3 miles from the Bernal site and bordering D2. This site is to accommodate an additional 204 beds effective June 2024!

•  In addition, they currently are moving forward on a plan to convert the Santa Teresa VTA  station into a RV Safe Parking Site to accommodate 42 units.

• The City has approved an additional EIH on Via Del Oro, again within these same 3 miles! This will be an additional 150 beds!

•  The City has also proposed to build additional EIH (Bridge Housing)  at the  Cottle VTA lot.  This is only on hold as Kaiser has need to use the site for parking during construction.

• To add, the City is proposing to pursue, as a back-up option to the City's proposed Cherry build,  a site on Bernal Road South at the 101 On Ramp and also a site on Bernal Road North between 101 and 85  for the Governor's State Small Home Initiative. That's two more sites!!!! All again within 3 miles!   Despite this being a so called back-up site, you can see the same kind of heavy equipment work going on at this site that we saw pre-Bernal/Monterey.  

• In addition, the City is supporting a SOAR sanctioned and poorly serviced encampment on Great Oaks Road where homeless have been seen wearing gang insignias while carrying bats and machetes!  The Bernal and Rue Ferrari sites have served as a magnet for the homeless, and the City has refused to clean up the mess resulting from these builds in the surrounding communities (encampments, dumping, broken-down vehicles, etc.).

• Despite Sergio Jimenez's protestations otherwise, San Jose Action now has proof that the Southside Community Center (Cottle Road) has been submitted for development of low income housing within the same 3 miles!!! 

Wake up, D2 and D10!  We are being played.  The city is relocating the homelessness problem to our lower income, multiculturally diverse, and often former redevelopment neighborhoods resulting in the gentrification of San Jose's city center and higher income neighborhoods at the expense of our quality of life and safety.  While they do this, they deny services to the surrounding neighborhoods.

To add insult to injury, members of San Jose Action and other neighborhood constituents who have requested to participate on neighborhood EIH and Safe Parking committees, as well as simple requests to have meeting minutes and schedules posted so as to allow access and participation by the local community, have been summarily ignored by Sergio Jimenez and his team. So much for an inclusive, diverse, and transparent government!