Save the Municipal Services Building
Save the Municipal Services Building
The Issue
The Municipal Services Building (MSB) at 33 Arroyo Drive is in danger of being demolished. The residents want it rezoned back to mixed used and preserved as a multi-use community center. It is ADA compliant with plenty of parking, and it has passed every annual fire and building inspection since 1969.
It is a place for the community and for community building: a place for seniors, teens, young people, and people of every age to congregate. It is also home to Fire Station #63.
The MSB was recently rezoned from “mixed use” to “housing” without residents’ knowledge, notification, or public input. The only entity that can reverse the zoning is the City Council. Our pleas and efforts to reverse this have fallen on deaf ears.
We need your help.
Funding and Taxpayer Money
The City Council has approved $9M to begin the relocation and construction of a new Fire Station #63 right across the street from the existing Fire Station #63. The new Fire Station is estimated to cost $32M, but this is a low estimate. In example, the estimated cost of the recently opened Community Civic Campus was $170M, but it ended up costing the city $210M.
MSB is a sound structure that survived the Loma Prieta Earthquake (1989) unscathed, and when the city was without electrical power, the MSB’s backup generators kicked in, supplying power to the building and to members of the community, by proxy. MSB has been a cornerstone of our community where people could attend classes, share free time, and socialize. It was also the home of our City Council meetings. Family gatherings were held in the Social Hall, available not only to residents of South City, but to neighboring cities.
It was a place where you could go and be a community – for free.
The parcel of land is slated to become high-density/low-income housing. We want to save the MSB as a multi-use community center, and as the continuing home to Fire Station #63.
Who we are: The SSF Citizens Coalition is a concerned group of residents whose core objective it to know what is happening in our city before it becomes a “done deal”. Together, we can take back our city!
We need your help; please join us.
To join the SSF Citizens Coalition, please email: ssfcitizenscoalition@gmail.com
The Issue
The Municipal Services Building (MSB) at 33 Arroyo Drive is in danger of being demolished. The residents want it rezoned back to mixed used and preserved as a multi-use community center. It is ADA compliant with plenty of parking, and it has passed every annual fire and building inspection since 1969.
It is a place for the community and for community building: a place for seniors, teens, young people, and people of every age to congregate. It is also home to Fire Station #63.
The MSB was recently rezoned from “mixed use” to “housing” without residents’ knowledge, notification, or public input. The only entity that can reverse the zoning is the City Council. Our pleas and efforts to reverse this have fallen on deaf ears.
We need your help.
Funding and Taxpayer Money
The City Council has approved $9M to begin the relocation and construction of a new Fire Station #63 right across the street from the existing Fire Station #63. The new Fire Station is estimated to cost $32M, but this is a low estimate. In example, the estimated cost of the recently opened Community Civic Campus was $170M, but it ended up costing the city $210M.
MSB is a sound structure that survived the Loma Prieta Earthquake (1989) unscathed, and when the city was without electrical power, the MSB’s backup generators kicked in, supplying power to the building and to members of the community, by proxy. MSB has been a cornerstone of our community where people could attend classes, share free time, and socialize. It was also the home of our City Council meetings. Family gatherings were held in the Social Hall, available not only to residents of South City, but to neighboring cities.
It was a place where you could go and be a community – for free.
The parcel of land is slated to become high-density/low-income housing. We want to save the MSB as a multi-use community center, and as the continuing home to Fire Station #63.
Who we are: The SSF Citizens Coalition is a concerned group of residents whose core objective it to know what is happening in our city before it becomes a “done deal”. Together, we can take back our city!
We need your help; please join us.
To join the SSF Citizens Coalition, please email: ssfcitizenscoalition@gmail.com
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Petition created on February 29, 2024