One committee meets this week as the Council returns from Legislative Recess. Land Use and Housing Committee members will consider a contract with Jewish Family Services to run the Safe Parking Program on five sites including the location known as “H-Barracks”.  They will also consider updating a study to evaluate the feasibility of an Affordable Housing Impact Fee for Short Term Rental Occupancy to assist with the creation of affordable housing.

From the Office of Council President Joe LaCava

Land Use and Housing Committee Meeting – April 10, 2025 – 1 p.m.

LU & H Committee Meeting Agenda

Consent Agenda

Item 1 – Approval of Committee Minutes

Item 2 - New 10-Year Non-Profit Lease Agreement with Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company, a California nonprofit corporation, dba The Firehouse Museum for the City-owned property located at 1572 Columbia Street, San Diego, CA 92101

This action is to approve a 10-year Lease with two 5-year options to extend an agreement with the Pioneer Hook and Ladder Company, a California nonprofit corporation dba The Firehouse Museum, to lease City-owned real property consisting of an approximately 10,672 square foot commercial building (commonly known as historic Fire Station #6) located at 1572 Columbia Street, San Diego, CA 92101. The current Firehouse Museum Lease expired in 1995 and is currently in holdover status.

Discussion Agenda

Item 3 - Approval of a Contract with Jewish Family Service for the Safe Parking Program

The Safe Parking Program provides unhoused individuals living in their vehicles with a temporary safe place to stay in addition to providing access to critical assistance. The program’s ultimate goal is to connect individuals and families to stable housing.

JFS has operated the City’s Safe Parking Program since 2018. The City’s program currently includes four locations, three of which are on City property including Rose Canyon, Aero Drive, and Mission Valley.

The fourth site located on Balboa Avenue is located on private property at JFS’s main administrative campus. The City is also expanding the Safe Parking Program with a new facility located on City-owned property off Harbor Drive, also known as H Barracks.

This item would authorize a contract between the City of San Diego and Jewish Family Service of San Diego to operate the Safe Parking Program for a total amount not to exceed $14,090,896.34, with an initial term from the effective date of the contract through June 30, 2025, with four additional one-year option periods.

Item 4 - Request to Update a Nexus Study Related to a Short-term Residential Occupancy Affordable Housing Impact Fee

Short-term residential occupancy (STRO) and the associated visitor spending creates jobs, some of which require the need for affordable housing to meet employees’ housing needs. To meet this need, City Council District 6 would like to collaborate with the San Diego Housing Commission to evaluate the feasibility of the payment of an Affordable Housing Impact Fee for STROs to assist with the creation of affordable housing.

This item requests the City Council District 6 Office work with the San Diego Housing Commission to update the Short-term Rental Occupancy Nexus Study that was prepared for the City of San Diego by Keyser Marston Associates in June 2018 and return to the Land Use and Housing Committee with findings and a recommendation regarding establishing a Short-term Residential Occupancy Affordable Housing Impact Fee at a future date.

Information Item

Item 5 - Affordable Housing Preservation Fund

At the request of Council President Pro Tem Kent Lee, the Chair of the Land Use and Housing Committee (Committee), an informational report will be presented to the Committee about the potential for the creation of an affordable housing preservation fund and options for its implementation.

The Preservation Collaborative, a stakeholder group facilitated by the San Diego Housing Commission (SDHC) that educates the community on affordable housing preservation and preservation resources, recommended a two-track strategy to address the need for increased preservation activity in San Diego: the creation of a Deed-Restricted Preservation Ordinance, which the City Council approved in February 2025, thereby satisfying the first of the two tracks, and the creation of a Preservation Fund. Creating a dedicated preservation fund would support the City of San Diego’s affordable housing preservation strategy by helping to preserve deed-restricted affordable housing and unsubsidized naturally occurring affordable housing (NOAH) units.

Public-private investment funds have become a way for many cities to create a renewable funding resource that allocates capital to affordable housing. 

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