09/16/2026
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Dear South Grand Community Improvement District Board of Directors (South Grand),
In response to the letter we received (see picture attached).
Being kind to anyone and everyone is never wrong. Compassion is ALWAYS right. We are all human and everyone deserves to be treated with basic human dignity. The South Grand we know and love is a compassionate, diverse, and loving community, and this does not reflect this community’s values in any way.
Over the years we and many other businesses on South Grand have supported and welcomed our unhoused community. We have been open for 30 years and the unhoused community has never made us feel unsafe, so claiming that as a justification for this is abhorrent and wrong.
We are extremely disappointed and quite frankly, angry that some of our fellow South Grand businesses have signed off and support this.
We also want to remind everyone that calling the police on our unhoused friends is never in the best interest of any person. Even more so, asking people to exploit this community by filming them so they can be identified is simply inhumane.
This is not a problem exclusive to South Grand, this is an issue across every city in this country, and this will only get worse. Instead of trying to pass the issue along to another neighborhood, we need to come together as a community and figure out humane and compassionate solutions.
We will continue to support our unhoused friends in giving them water and food, access to air conditioning and heat, access to bathrooms, Wi-Fi, ability to charge their phones, and a place to sit on our patio, and we hope other businesses will do the same.
This is more than disappointing to us, this is cruel and heartless.
We stand with our unhoused neighbors, now and always.
Love, the Mokabes family.