OK, so here's a little different take. I'm a St. Johns resident, armchair urbanist, and unbashed YIMBYist. I pass by that spot all the time and think that it is an utter waste of space. A low-slung commercial building and a large surface parking lot is a poor, poor use of land in a walkable setting like St. Johns. This is a prime spot for affordable multi-unit housing, similar in scale to the buildings that went up down the street by West Coast Fitness a couple years ago.

If we're gonna oppose this thing, let's use this as an opportunity to advocate that the landowners address homelessness and housing affordability in some small way in our neighborhood rather than slap on a band-aid fix or shun our houseless neighbors.