Sacramento Councilmember Phil Pluckebaum wants to put a firm lid on how many homeless shelter beds can be packed into the River District. His newly introduced draft ordinance would lock the neighborhood’s current baseline at 526 beds, allow only a tightly defined increase tied to a planned safe-camping site, and require a supermajority vote of the City Council before any additional capacity could be approved. The proposal is slated for an initial hearing before the council’s Law and Legislation Committee, as reported by The Sacramento Bee.
What Pluckebaum Is Proposing
Under the draft, the River District’s shelter bed total would be frozen at 526, with a one-time bump to 626 allowed only to account for the proposed Sequoia safe-camping site. Any move…..