*** BE THERE !!! 7:25pm at Council Chambers – TONIGHT! ***
There was Triumph, the Insult Comic Dog. Now locally we have:
“Droppington, the Bureaucratic Pooping Pidgeon”
Davis City Council: “We love the Davis Manor Neighborhood, for us to poop on!“
The City Council will be voting Tuesday night on the staff recommendation to keep the Respite Center at it’s current location.
I don’t know that there is anything civil left to say. The Dave-Us City Council has pooped on our three neighborhoods adjacent to the Respite Center, over and over:
- Initially, in 2019, the Respite Center was “supposed” to be at 3559 Second Street. This is near where the pedestrian bridge over the railroad and freeway crosses 2nd Street. A large contingent of persons from both sides of the pedestrian bridge, persons from District 4 and District 5, descended on the Council Chambers to protest the siting, claiming among other things that their children would be threatened. Note there are no houses adjacent or even near the proposed 2nd Street location.
- The Council then voted at the same meeting to move the Respite Center site to L Street, despite this being on the agenda as only an alternative site, so those in the adjacent neighborhoods were not there to address the L Street location since there was no indication it would be adopted.
- Note this site had both immediately adjacent residential houses as well as two nearby liquor outlets.
- The Council listened to those who came from the rich Davis suburbs to the east where the homes on average are about $100k higher in price than those in Davis Manor! But Davis Manor was unable to respond with concerns until after the decision was made.
- The Davis City Council gave in to the pleadings of these rich suburbites and showed how much they cared about the welfare of their children; at the same time, the City Council showed that they don’t care about the concerns of the people of Davis Manor, nor have any concern about the children of Davis Manor.
- In moving the Respite Center siting over these concerns, the Council low key admitted there was reason to be concerned about the persons that would be using the Respite Center, yet showed a complete bias towards addressing the concerns only for the rich East Davis and South Davis suburbites.
- This is a VIOLATION of the concept of Social Justice, where cities do not place the burden of infrastructure upon those with less money. Davis Manor has among the highest concentrations of Hispanic persons in Davis, and has some of the most affordable housing stock for first-time buyers. Placing the Respite Center in Davis Manor next to homes, rather than in a distant lot in District 4 shows that the Davis City Council TALKS about Social Justice, but is in fact exceptionally biased and overly-influenced by those with money, just like any other town.
- The District 3 Council Member at the time told me personally that a Night Respite Center would be opened soon so that those using the Respite Center during the day would have a place to go at night, to alleviate our concerns about those using the Respite Center taking up residence in and around the neighborhood at night. Except for a short-lived, doomed-to-fail, experiment requiring a 20 minute drive each-way to a migrant center in south Yolo, no such night-center materialized.
- Since the establishment of the “rotating”, “pilot” Respite Center across from the liquor outlets on L Street, residents of Davis Manor, Huntwood Manor, and Old East Davis have experienced numerous issues and with so-called ‘homeless’ persons, far too many to elaborate on here. Maybe I’ll take testimonies for another post someday to document all these. While not all are caused by the Respite Center, there is no doubt the concentration of persons using the Center and coming to and through our neighborhoods has placed an undue burden upon us. Meanwhile, those with more wealth and apparently therefore more influence from Districts 4 and 5 who complained about the proposed 2nd Street location back in 2019 continue on with their rich suburban lifestyles, blessedly UN-burdened.
- The City has never explained why the safety of the children of Districts 4 and 5 are more important than the safety of the children of District 3.
- On March 2, 2025, over 100 residents of nearby neighborhoods attended a meeting with the City about the Respite Center at Da Vinci campus. Many incidents were vented. City reps feigned giving a damn. The universal message to the City from nearby residents was: ‘We have done our share, the Respite Center must be moved’.
- In September 2025 the City Council held a meeting in which a 90-day closure and moving options were considered. This looked promising at first, until some homeless advocates spoke up about how the Respite Center ‘services’ could not possibly have a moment of interruption, despite evidence some of the services supposed offered were non-operational. One of the homeless advocates even testified that the neighbor’s concerns about the homeless were not even real, and were just unjustified ‘fear‘.
- Tonight, scheduled for 7:25pm at Council Chambers, the City Council will consider the staff recommendation to keep the Respite Center where it is.
— Will you come by and testify? —
Or shall Davis Manor, Huntwood Manor, Old East Davis, and District 3 in general — remain as the geographic center for the Davis City Council to POOP ON ?
BE THERE !!! 7:25pm at Council Chambers – TONIGHT! BE THERE !!!
Davisite 
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