Chula Vista’s Harborside Park is on the path to reopening. The city closed the park in 2022 amid concerns over criminal activity and a large homeless…
Chula Vista’s Harborside Park is on the path to reopening. The city closed the park in 2022 amid concerns over criminal activity and a large homeless population. The community rallied around Harborside, which highlights a broader issue impacting Chula Vista: a disparity in the park space between the city’s east and west sides.
“The community came out for over a year to every council meeting and asked people to open the park,” McCann said.“We were able to get the entire council to understand that we need to fund and reopen the park, put in security issues and be able to make sure that we have the park there for that community,” McCann said.
While Perez said she's grateful that Harborside will reopen, she said it’s part of a larger problem: a lack of parks on Chula Vista’s west side, particularly as compared the city's east side. “The city of Chula Vista is over 100 years old, so as they grew out in the west side, there wasn’t the infrastructure, there wasn’t the planning - people would just build houses and not necessarily understand that if you’re going to bring in a community, you need to be able to have those open spaces and parks,” McCann said.
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