SAN FRANCISCO – A mobile home park on Winston Drive was relocated at the request of the San Francisco City Council.

This community has settled into a site on Zoo Road behind the San Francisco Zoo, just over a mile from its previous location, but neighbors are already voicing concerns.

Last week, the city pushed for the RVs to be relocated, and more than a dozen of them ended up on Zoo Road, including Jamilet Lira and her family, who had called this RV their home for three years.

She explained in Spanish that she had only moved to Zoo Road eight days ago. She and her family really like it there because it is quiet and safe. She says it is stressful and difficult to constantly move from one place to another.

The new camp is located just a few meters from the Pomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center, which focuses on supporting people with developmental disabilities.

The center says the RV park here takes up valuable parking spaces for employees and customers. The center also explained that while this RV park appears very peaceful, there was previously another RV park that parked in the same area and was a nuisance to customers and employees.

“Our staff and participants are scared,” said Jillian Flannery of the Pomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center. “Especially the participants who come here don’t know. They are mentally disabled, so they can’t always differentiate between the two communities.”

The center has been in touch with the city and hopes a solution will be found soon. “I have every confidence that this city will find a solution that is compassionate and beneficial to us and the RV community,” Flannery said.

Mayor London Breed’s office issued a statement saying the mayor agrees that the RVs should not remain parked near the Pomeroy Center and “the city has already had and will continue to have face-to-face conversations with the RV residents on Zoo Road, offering support, accommodation and shelter while enforcing parking laws.”

Stephen Martin-Pinto, who is running for District 7 Supervisor, has seen the site on his own. He says it’s not the right place to build a housing development. “I’m not without compassion, but compassion goes both ways at the same time,” Martin-Pinto said. “Compassion for the neighbors, compassion for the people who use this facility. Compassion is a two-way street.”

The office of Myrna Melgar, who currently serves the area, released a statement that reads in part: “I am asking for Mayor Breed’s help and the support of the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing to work with the Pomeroy Center to minimize the impact on the mentally disabled population and the families who use the Pomeroy Center. Additionally, I would like to take steps to mitigate the impact on street users and ensure housing stability and success for these at-risk families and their children.”