Re-create City Golf Course into Neighborhood for the Homeless

In this jobless economy thousands of people are unable to earn enough money for the basics – food and shelter. As the number of people living on the streets of San Diego grows, long-term solutions are needed to put people back to work with living wages.

The Amikas plan would fully employ 1800 people, building and maintaining their own sustainable neighborhood with minimal drain on taxpayers and government resources. The 76-acre section of Tecolote Canyon currently being used as an executive golf course is ideally suited for this project. In a region with over 90 golf courses within a 40-mile radius of downtown, where water conservation is crucial to our future survival, replacing one golf course with a project committed to water conservation, that provides food, housing and employment, makes perfect sense! As the saying goes, "We must find solutions when the problem is big enough to see, but small enough to resolve". This is the time.

We fully support the plan to change the current parkland designation of the Tecolote Canyon Golf Course, to build an environmentally friendly, self-sufficient Amikas neighborhood and we request that the San Diego City Council moves quickly to put this initiative on the November 2010 ballot so the voters of San Diego can choose to get this program started before next winter.