A former first-responder training facility near the San Diego Airport is set to open this weekend as a repurposed safe-sleeping parking lot for unhoused residents.

The H Barracks site off North Harbor Drive between Kincaid and McCain roads will provide 190 parking spaces for use by individuals and families living in their vehicles. The site will be managed by the nonprofit Jewish Family Service of San Diego, who operates the program at other locations across the city.

“The individuals and families served through the Safe Parking Program are our neighbors, and many are experiencing homelessness for the first time — needing just a little bit of help to get back on their feet,” Mayor Todd Gloria said when the new site was approved in mid-April. “Programs like Safe Parking give us a chance to intervene early and get folks on a path back to housing, and with the H Barracks site, we’ll be able to help hundreds more struggling San Diegans.

Jewish Family Services CEO Dana Toppel said the program is intended to provide additional services that can provide residents a “pathway to stability.” Their sites include restrooms, housing navigation, mental health services and job training, and participants work with case managers to create individual housing goals, according to the city.

The additional parking spaces will bring San Diego’s Safe Parking Program to about 400 spaces. H Barracks also includes space for recreational vehicles.

The city’s director of the city’s Homelessness Strategies and Solutions Department, Sarah Jarman, said the program targets a different need among San Diego’s unhoused population.

“We know from the latest Point in Time Count that the need here has grown and not just for cars, but for oversized vehicles too. Investing in multiple types of sheltering options is key to meeting people where they are,” Jarman said previously.

The city has filed a permit application for a 600-bed facility at the H Barracks. NBC 7’s Omari Fleming reports some residents are questioning the city’s transparency about the project. 

Some members of the nearby Point Loma community opposed the location for the new site while others agreed action should be taken to provide people a path toward housing.

According to a city staff report, just within the last year, JFS has served more than 1,000 individuals across all four safe parking sites. Of those, more than 800 exited the program with more than 250 of them moving into permanent housing.

The H Barracks were previously military barracks and served as a police and fire department training facility, but the crumbling buildings were torn down earlier this year. The area is the future site of a San Diego Pure Water treatment facility. Paving was completed last month at the location and mobile office trailers for program staff have been added, with electrical work and lighting upgrades to be completed soon.

The site could be open through 2029. The city has four one-year options to renew the agreement before the Pure Water facility begins operations.

The power of social media can be scary.

The On Friar Podcast hosts were all ready to talk about the Padres having a good week going 4-2 and preparing for a brutal June schedule that could define their season while having to work around injuries to their starting rotation.

Then one social media post from the partner of Paul Skenes sent us down the rabbit hole.

As the discussion about the potential for the Pirates ace to be moved progressed it went from why it would make absolutely no sense for Pittsburgh to make that deal to a somewhat compelling argument of why it’s a real possibility. Yes, the whole thing is kind of wild. Take the trip with us, won’t you?

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Tirso Ornelas might be heating up.

The 25-year-old left fielder homered in a second straight game, powering Triple-A El Paso’s 3-1 win on Wednesday at Sacramento.

Ornelas also doubled and drove in all three runs, pushing his RBI total to 26 on the season. The homer was his third after hitting a career-high 23 last year with El Paso.

Ornelas is hitting .291/.373/.411 through 35 games with El Paso.

Ornelas went 1-for-14 during his first big-league call-up earlier this season.

First baseman Trenton Brooks (.941 OPS), right fielder Yonathan Perlaza (.808 OPS) and designated hitter Tim Locastro (1.036 OPS) all had doubles.

Right-hander Ryan Bergert (3.75 ERA) struck out four over four shutout innings of one-hit ball in the start. Bergert has allowed just two runs over 13⅓ innings since returning from the majors.

Right-hander Ron Marinaccio (5-0, 4.98 ERA) closed the game with two shutout innings for the win.

El Paso is 27-26.

Wednesday’s scoreboard

DOUBLE-A SAN ANTONIO (26-21)

Missions 4, Arkansas 1 (7): LHP Jagger Haynes (3-2, 4.37 ERA) struck out six and allowed an unearned run in six innings in the win. Haynes walked three and allowed one hit. RHP Manuel Castro (3.79 ERA) saved his seventh game despite walking two and allowing a hit in a scoreless seventh inning. C Brandon Valenzuela (.814 OPS) went 1-for-3 with an RBI, a walk and a run scored. DH Marcos Castañon (.809 OPS) went 2-for-3 with a run scored. 1B Romeo Sanabria (.887 OPS) went 2-for-4 with a run scored.

Missions 1, Arkansas 0 (8): CF Nerwilian Cedeno (.530 OPS) drove in the game’s lone run on a sacrifice fly in extra innings. Valenzuela’s double was the game’s only extra-base hit. RHP Bradgley Rodriguez (3.22 ERA) struck out two in a scoreless eighth inning for his fifth save. RHP Henry Baez (2.45 ERA) struck out two in 4⅓ scoreless innings in the start.

HIGH SINGLE-A FORT WAYNE (23-24)

Great Lakes 10, TinCaps 1: RHP Clark Candiotti (1-4, 4.97 ERA) struck out six and allowed two runs—one earned—on five hits and a walk in five innings in the loss. RHP Eiker Huizi (6.75 ERA) allowed seven runs in two-thirds of an inning. DH Sean Barnett (.693 OPS) went 1-for-3 with a double and a run scored. SS Leo De Vries (.826 OPS) went 1-for-4 and committed his 12th error.

LOW SINGLE-A LAKE ELSINORE (20-27)

Stockton 6, Storm 4: DH Kavares Tears (.743 OPS) drove in two runs on two hits, including a double. C Carlos Rodriguez (1.417 OPS) went 2-for-3 with an RBI, a walk and a run scored. RF Ryan Wilson (.675 OPS) went 1-for-4 with an RBI double. RF Victor Figueroa (.937 OPS) went 0-for-3 with two walks. RHP Kleiber Olmedo (0-3, 8.39 ERA) allowed three runs in four innings in the start.