Sacramento Little League Outraged Over Proposed Homeless Site Near Field

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) – If you are lasting astatine the Airport Little League Baseball field, you tin spot abandoned RV’s, piles of trash, and remnants of encampments successful the area. The tract has been a interest for the league.

“We person seen prostitution, RV’s connected fire, radical urinating, defecating and the kids are playing close adjacent to it,” explained Joanne Jauregui.

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Jauregui said it’s a regular problem. It gets cleaned up past it comes back.

Adding to Jarengui’s fears, the metropolis of Sacramento is proposing the batch crossed their tract astatine 24th Street and 48th Avenue beryllium a harmless tract for the stateless to parkland overnight implicit with bathrooms and showers.

“How are they going to suggest it’s going to beryllium harmless for children to beryllium here? There is nary mode they tin marque immoderate benignant of promises,” Jauregui said.

The small league comprised of much than 400 players is calling foul shot connected the metropolis implicit concerns of however it mightiness interaction their players. The tract would beryllium located betwixt 2 of their fields.

“We person aggregate fields wherever they person to locomotion crossed the street, but close present they can’t adjacent locomotion connected the sidewalk owed to the debris,” she said.

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Councilman Jay Schenirer represents the vicinity and says the projected tract located adjacent the Sacramento Executive Airport is not a done deal.

“Let’s adjacent spot if its viable, we person to speech to the airdrome and person different conversations; what I’m saying to them is my committedness to you arsenic a vicinity is if we are going to commencement the conversation, you are going to beryllium progressive successful it,” said Schenirer.

The determination is not 1 of the city’s apical 20 precedence sites, which means discussions connected the connection could inactive beryllium a twelvemonth out.

“What we privation to bash is wide marque neighborhoods safer, not little safe,” said Schenirer

For the small league, the connection is nary location tally and a determination they consciousness shouldn’t adjacent beryllium considered.

”I consciousness it’s going to bring much poorness and much transgression to the area,” said Jauregui.

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Jauregui is starring a rally to protestation the connection connected Saturday astatine 10 a.m. astatine the shot field.

Velena Jones