{"id":795186,"date":"2026-05-14T06:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/795186\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T06:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T06:08:20","slug":"proposed-san-diego-budget-would-close-38-public-bathrooms-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/795186\/","title":{"rendered":"Proposed San Diego budget would close 38 public bathrooms \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using the bathroom could soon be tough to do in a number of popular public spaces in San Diego. Mayor Todd Gloria&#8217;s proposed budget for fiscal year 2027 would close 38 public bathrooms to save $3 million.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s pathetic,&#8221; said one man walking his grandson at Shoreline Beach.<\/p>\n<p>According to the City of San Diego&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2026-04\/iba-report-26-11-review-of-the-fiscal-year-2027-proposed-budget_0.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Independent Budget Analysis Report<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Closing 13 of the 28 bathrooms in Mission Bay Park would help save $547,000.<\/li>\n<li>Closing 7 of the 14 portables on Fiesta Island would help save $18,000.<\/li>\n<li>All five bathrooms on Shoreline Beach, except the ones near the Children&#8217;s Pool in La Jolla, would also shutter.<\/li>\n<li>And the plan to close some comfort stations in Balboa Park and bathrooms in downtown San Diego would help the city save more than $1.5 million.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a realtor who works and walks in downtown, Patty Doyle has smelled and seen some things.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Closing the bathrooms is not going to help&#8221; Doyle said. &#8220;We have to buy a power wash machine and clean up the mess that somebody else has left behind, it&#8217;s getting ugly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She worries the bathroom closures could lead to a repeat of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/local\/san-diego-county-hepatitis-a-emergency-update-declining-cases\/148211\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2017 hepatitis A outbreak<\/a> that sickened hundreds and killed 20 people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Shelter-less people were using the sidewalks as toilets,&#8221; Doyle said. &#8220;So people were walking through that, taking it home. I mean, it&#8217;s terrible.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2021, following a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/local\/shigella-outbreak-reported-among-san-diego-homeless\/2741921\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shigella outbreak<\/a>, Gloria promised a toilet within a five-minute walk anywhere downtown, according to a report in the Voice of San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>A 2023 grand jury report also urged the city to expand bathroom access in and around downtown.<\/p>\n<p>A downtown resident says he does not mind paying extra taxes as long as there are public facilities.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It makes sense for us to get together and find a way to fund these things. Where we can maybe pay a tax, an extra tax to keep these things going,&#8221; said Joao Brantua. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our problem is we&#8217;re getting charged more, and receiving less,&#8221; Doyle said about losing access to a restroom in public spaces. &#8220;You bring your family to the park,\u00a0you bring your family to the beach. What are you gonna do? Have them use the water?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>NBC 7 reached out to the mayor&#8217;s office for comment and is waiting to hear back.<\/p>\n<p>A final budget has to be approved by June 15th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Using the bathroom could soon be tough to do in a number of popular public spaces in San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":795187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-795186","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-san-diego","12":"tag-sandiego","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-united-states-of-america","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116571439546601401","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=795186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}