Clean & Safe Renewed for 2025-2035 Term
For more than 20 years, the PBID – otherwise known as the Downtown Partnership Clean & Safe program – has been addressing the needs of Downtown property owners, residents and businesses through best practice enhanced services to make our urban neighborhoods more clean, more safe and more vibrant. These enhanced services are funded by a special assessment paid by its ratepayers – property owners within the 275 blocks included in the district.
Funds raised through the PBID through annual special assessments allow ratepayers to share the cost of bringing services like sidewalk pressure washing, trash pickup, nuisance abatement, unhoused care services, graffiti removal and more to the streets and sidewalks around their properties.
To ensure PBID services are meeting ratepayer needs, the district is renewed by a ballot of all assessed property owners every 10 years.
As part of a years-long outreach process in advance of the PBID’s renewal, more than 70 property owner meetings, 50 HOA meetings, property owner surveys, open houses, and community forums were conducted to ensure the PBID will deliver the services that are most important to the community. Following the distribution of ballots to property owners within the District, a majority voted in favor of renewing the PBID, leading to the San Diego City Council’s authorization of the renewal on Jan. 27, 2025. The renewed district will officially go into effect on July 1, 2025. This will allow existing critical services to continue in district (including seven additional blocks around San Diego City College and Commercial Street) and additional improvements selected based on extensive community input to be implemented in the years ahead.
For additional details on projects being pursued by the Clean & Safe program to make Downtown more clean and more safe, we invite you to review the Downtown Safety Plan and Downtown Clean Plan.
Click here to view the Downtown PBID’s approved Management District Plan and Engineer’s Report.
With the PBID in place, there is a local contact for ratepayers to call for assistance 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, year-round. In addition to responding to property needs, PBID staff members called Ambassadors can be seen in Downtown every day providing enhanced services, assisting community members, and identifying the needs and challenges of each urban neighborhood to constantly improve the services they provide.
Graffiti & Stickers Removed
Blocks Power Washed
Pounds of Trash Collected
Safety Patrols Conducted
Individual Wellness Checks
Business Visits
Individuals Housed
FRP Program Clients Connected with Support Systems
Planters Maintained
Trees Trimmed
Click here for the PBID’s FY23-24 Annual Report or below for more reports and information.
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