STOCKTON, Calif. — The San Joaquin County Board of Supervisors is contemplating turning the shuttered Oakmoore Golf Course in Stockton right into a protected tenting web site for the unhoused.
Supervisors not too long ago accepted a discover of intention to buy two parcels of land, totaling 67.25 acres, positioned at 3737 and 3801 N. Wilson Manner. The land, which is owned by Gurpartap Singh of Oakmoore Properties, contains the golf course clubhouse in addition to three properties.
Supervisors haven’t but selected a use for the property. Nonetheless, they’re planning to debate a short-term plan and a long-term plan for the property, which entails protected tenting.
Protected tenting offers a devoted house for unhoused people to stay in tents, supplied by the county, on a short-term foundation.
The Oakmoore Golf Course is positioned at 3737 N. Wilson Manner in Stockton on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2024. (Photograph: Clifford Oto/Stockton Report)
The 2024 Level-in-Time Depend reported a complete of 4,732 individuals experiencing homelessness in San Joaquin County, in comparison with 2,319 in 2022 and a couple of,629 in 2019.
The county’s short-term plan is to make use of a small portion of the property — about three acres — for a protected tenting web site. The long-term plan contains the potential of shifting the neighborhood improvement, environmental well being, and public works departments to the location.
District 2 Supervisor Paul Canepa stated the county had been on the lookout for a property for protected tenting, and he expressed pleasure over the golf course.
If the plans are accepted by the board, supportive companies will likely be in place on the tenting web site, together with guidelines and laws to maintain the world clear and free of medicine and crime, in response to county officers.
“It’s an absolute home run,” Canepa stated earlier than the Nov. 12 vote on the property.
District 3 Supervisor Tom Patti counseled the board for its willingness to associate with cities to seek out options to homelessness, but additionally for “really doing more than what a lot of counties are doing.”
The county has set a value restrict of $9.6 million. The board is about to decide on the acquisition at its Dec. 10 assembly.