0 EYE ON SC, News Headlines City to Accept Funds to Aid Homeless Outreach Services By C. Jayden Smith The San Clemente City Council voted, 3-2, on Nov. 16 to authorize the city’s application and receipt of funding from a…
0 Letters to the Editor, SOAPBOX Letter to the Editor: Response to ‘Bates Takes Credit’ SEN. PATRICIA BATES, Laguna Niguel To set the record straight, I am not taking credit for the passage of SB 2 (2017). While I support…
0 Letters to the Editor, SOAPBOX Letter to the Editor: Bates Takes Credit BENJAMIN RICH, San Clemente It was shocking to see Sen. Patricia Bates singing the praises of the $4 million state PLHA funding for housing in…
5 EYE ON SC, News Headlines The Ranch: Where San Clemente’s Drug Users and Homeless Are Shipped off to Recover By Eric Heinz David was stranded in California, miles away from his hometown in Missouri. A bus had dropped him off with only a backpack…
1 EYE ON SC, News Headlines Judge Issues Injunction on City’s Commercial Permitting Following Emergency Shelter Decisions By Eric Heinz An Orange County Superior Court judge made a tentative ruling on Friday that the city of San Clemente has not complied with…
5 EYE ON SC, News Headlines City to Pay $480,000-Plus in Attorney Fees for SB 2 Lawsuit By Eric Heinz The city of San Clemente has been ordered to pay $480,000 in attorney fees to three legal firms. This follows a previous…
2 EYE ON SC, News Headlines Homeless Shelter Overlay Passed on Second Reading By Eric Heinz City Council voted 4-0, with Councilman Chris Hamm absent, on Tuesday to approve what has become known as the Rancho San Clemente…
0 EYE ON SC, News Headlines Overlay for Homeless Shelter Passes with Contingencies By Eric Heinz San Clemente is poised to enact a zoning amendment that would allow for a homeless shelter to be built in the Rancho…
1 EYE ON SC, News Headlines Planning Commission Approves Zoning for Emergency Shelter By Eric Heinz On Wednesday, Sept. 21, the Planning Commission took the first steps in rectifying the city’s lack of zoning for an emergency shelter,…
1 Uncategorized Letter: Denying Shelter Will Not Solve Homeless Issues Sandra Weaver, San Clemente Just because the city refused to abide by Senate Bill 2, requiring all California cities to designate zones where a group…
2 EYE ON SC, News Headlines Judge Orders San Clemente to Establish Areas for Homeless Shelter By Eric Heinz Since the state adopted Senate Bill 2 in 2007, which mandates cities must establish areas of land—private or public—as potential spots for…
1 EYE ON SC, News Headlines City Says Misconceptions Abound From Homeless Shelter Plan By Eric Heinz Although the city had a closed-session agenda item regarding the property negotiations of a land parcel at Avenida La Pata and Vista…
