Plans to turn the former Oakmoore Golf Course in Stockton into a “safe camping” site for the unhoused have hit a snag that is preventing the project from going forward.
While San Joaquin County now owns the 62-acre site on Wilson Way, the conversion is being waylaid by a California residential code. The provision bars establishing tent camps if temperatures can fall below 50 degrees. The average monthly low in Stockton dips into the 40s starting in November.
Board of Supervisors Chair Paul Canepa, who has championed the project as a cost-effective and common sense alternative to allowing homeless camps to fester, is confident that a solution can be found…