Encinitas businesses, residents, taxpayers, and visitors ALL call on the City of Encinitas to deny the Encinitas Community Resource Center (CRC) proposed expansion plans in downtown Encinitas.

The Mayor, City Council, and Planning Commission must reject the proposed plans, now at the city for approval, for the following reasons:

1. The CRC business operation today poses real and actual, documented public safety & health risks and threats for downtown businesses and residents, the community at large. To expand the CRC will only increase the public safety & health risks by bringing yet more people to Encinitas for services.
2. Downtown businesses and residents, the Sheriff team, and the Homeless Action Team, are ALL already unduly burdened by the CRC's local impacts that include crime, loitering, harrassment defication, litter, and more. To expand the CRC will only expand the popuation the CRC serves at this site.
3. The CRC's location is today harming the city's economic development, and the civic vitality and well-being of our downtown and local businesses. This area is the economic hub of the city's economic engine, tourism and housing district, our "Main Street" 101. To expand the CRC will further harm the area by attracting yet more homeless to this key economic zone.
4. The CRC has created unsafe and unwanted collateral impacts throughout all of Encinitas ranging from growing crime to outdoor camping, camping in vehicles, open air drug use, the trashing of Encinitas, excess vehicular trips and associated carbon emissions, downtown parking impacts, and more. To expand the CRC will only invite more of this element to Encinitas.

The people ask  that the NEW Mayor and the NEW Encinitas City Council, and Planning Commission, all DENY the proposal to expand the CRC in downtown Encinitas for the above reasons.

The people also ask the Mayor and City Council help the CRC work on a relocation plan to a more suitable location, either in Encinitas or preferrably, outside of Encinitas, to better service their existing and expanding clientele.

Finally, the people ask the Mayor and City Council to regulate the CRC in the same way the "Short Term Rental Good Neighbor Policy" reads, while at the same time, enforce existing City Municipal Code Chapter 9.01 that prohibits camping and sleeping in cars in Encinitas, and to also respond to the Grants Pass/Martin versus Boise decision from July 27, 2024 with firm action now.

The signers of this petition call on the city leadership to deny the CRC proposal to expand the CRC in our downtown. 

Disclaimer: this is not an effort to collect any funds at this time, a signature is all that is required from those in support of the petition.