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Proposition D, Laguna Honda zoning changes
SF Bay Guardian explanation of why it is opposing Proposition D
Proposition D
Laguna Honda zoning changes
NO
We agree with one of the basic premises of this measure: Laguna Honda hospital, which is designed as a long-term care facility for seniors, has been used improperly as a dumping ground for violent mental patients. That's caused real safety problems for the patients and the staff.
But Prop. D doesn't offer a public health solution. This is a zoning measure, and it's an inappropriately blunt instrument to use for a complex and nuanced problem.
For starters, the issue of sending patients who don't fit the traditional Laguna Honda profile to that facility is tricky. What should the public health director do when there's no room at San Francisco General for someone who urgently needs medical care, and there happens to be space, and qualified staff, available at Laguna Honda? Is it better to risk an imperfect patient mix or to toss a mentally ill homeless person out on the streets? That's a dilemma San Francisco doctors face every day, in a health care, social service, and housing crisis that shows no signs of quickly going away — and it's not the sort of decision that ought to be made with a ballot initiative.
Besides, since this is a zoning plan (and could never be changed except with another vote of the people), it would restrict any future use of the Laguna Honda campus. Health care needs change; half a century ago, Laguna Honda was a tuberculosis sanatorium. The place is being rebuilt anyway; in the future, there would be many public health uses that would make sense for the site.
There's another big problem too: The way Prop. D is worded, it would open the door for private nursing-home development not only at Laguna Honda but at 1,600 sites that are zoned for public use around the city. Vote no. SFBG
Laguna Honda zoning changes
NO
We agree with one of the basic premises of this measure: Laguna Honda hospital, which is designed as a long-term care facility for seniors, has been used improperly as a dumping ground for violent mental patients. That's caused real safety problems for the patients and the staff.
But Prop. D doesn't offer a public health solution. This is a zoning measure, and it's an inappropriately blunt instrument to use for a complex and nuanced problem.
For starters, the issue of sending patients who don't fit the traditional Laguna Honda profile to that facility is tricky. What should the public health director do when there's no room at San Francisco General for someone who urgently needs medical care, and there happens to be space, and qualified staff, available at Laguna Honda? Is it better to risk an imperfect patient mix or to toss a mentally ill homeless person out on the streets? That's a dilemma San Francisco doctors face every day, in a health care, social service, and housing crisis that shows no signs of quickly going away — and it's not the sort of decision that ought to be made with a ballot initiative.
Besides, since this is a zoning plan (and could never be changed except with another vote of the people), it would restrict any future use of the Laguna Honda campus. Health care needs change; half a century ago, Laguna Honda was a tuberculosis sanatorium. The place is being rebuilt anyway; in the future, there would be many public health uses that would make sense for the site.
There's another big problem too: The way Prop. D is worded, it would open the door for private nursing-home development not only at Laguna Honda but at 1,600 sites that are zoned for public use around the city. Vote no. SFBG
For more information:
http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=585
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The mouthpiece of the death penalty Democratic Party, the Bay Guardian, is moving to the right as fast as it can, not only by endorsing the entire Democratic Party ticket in every election, but also carrying a full color brochure insert for the US Navy's Blue Death last October when they come here annually for Columbus Genocide weekend to terrorize us with their terrible noise so as to glorify war.
Proposition D will guarantee that Laguna Honda be what it has always been before the bond was passed, a public nursing home for the elderly, frail and disabled. In other words, it is a nursing home for the workingclass senior citizens, and it had better be there for us.
Proposition D has a website, http://www.propositiond.org/
Therein are the various ballot arguments and all other information on Prop. D. The endorsements on the front page include the National Organization for Women and the Union of American Physicians and Dentists. It addresses the lies of the Bay Guardian and its reactionary friends at http://www.sf4lagunahonda.org/DischargeMisinformation.html Frequently Asked Questions are addressed at http://www.sf4lagunahonda.org/FAQ.html The Voter Handbook statements are at http://www.sf4lagunahonda.org/VoterGuide.html Please be sure to read Doug Comstock's outstanding ballot argument at this section.
What has taken place at Laguna Honda since the infamous bond was placed is described in the State Citations section at http://www.sf4lagunahonda.org/Citations.html
So remember to vote a BINGO YES on all San Francisco and California propositions on June 6.
Proposition D will guarantee that Laguna Honda be what it has always been before the bond was passed, a public nursing home for the elderly, frail and disabled. In other words, it is a nursing home for the workingclass senior citizens, and it had better be there for us.
Proposition D has a website, http://www.propositiond.org/
Therein are the various ballot arguments and all other information on Prop. D. The endorsements on the front page include the National Organization for Women and the Union of American Physicians and Dentists. It addresses the lies of the Bay Guardian and its reactionary friends at http://www.sf4lagunahonda.org/DischargeMisinformation.html Frequently Asked Questions are addressed at http://www.sf4lagunahonda.org/FAQ.html The Voter Handbook statements are at http://www.sf4lagunahonda.org/VoterGuide.html Please be sure to read Doug Comstock's outstanding ballot argument at this section.
What has taken place at Laguna Honda since the infamous bond was placed is described in the State Citations section at http://www.sf4lagunahonda.org/Citations.html
So remember to vote a BINGO YES on all San Francisco and California propositions on June 6.
For more information:
http://www.propositiond.org/
This is propaganda! VOTE NO ON PROP D!!!!!
Prop D. is bullshit, backed by Builders who are salivating over potential opportunity for privitization/building.. It will also displace current and future patients who may not perfectly fit into the narrow parameters that this measure will create. It is absurd.
Prop D. is bullshit, backed by Builders who are salivating over potential opportunity for privitization/building.. It will also displace current and future patients who may not perfectly fit into the narrow parameters that this measure will create. It is absurd.
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