Oxnard—Mayor Pro Tem Bryan MacDonald’s Mayoral campaign feature continues with Heritage Square, designed to be a community facility, and the venue has no restrooms except inside private businesses or the City-owned Chapel.
Heritage Square Restrooms
“When we do an event there, like the summer concerts, we don’t open the Chapel, and they have to use porta-potties out in the parking lot,” he said. “I don’t think that’s right. I think there should be facilities that allow people to go down and enjoy the event in our City with all the comforts of being at home. That includes a working and clean restroom.”
He said if the City sold properties at Heritage Square as surplus properties, the restrooms would go away.
“We could build a restroom facility at Heritage Square, and I’ve asked the City Manager to look into it.
“He (Nguyen) asked me what I need to do to get more support on this,” MacDonald said. “I said public restrooms would be one thing. The last I talked with him, he was taking a look at that option.”
He said public restrooms are good but are costly to maintain and clean.
“That’s part of being a City and providing…
