Neighborhood leaders developed a list of wishes, including issues they had been lobbying to change for years, such as more on-street parking and the development of a master plan.
Warren, the association vice president, said the commitments still must be codified into a legally binding document. The city hopes it will be signed this week.
"It is important that it transcend the current mayor and her commitment to end homelessness," he said. "We can scream when we don't like what we see."
The association didn't get everything it wanted, and key to its support was a commitment that the new shelter not become a warehouse for the homeless. A permanent population, Warren said, would find ways to "somehow live off the local community."
Part of the city's plan is to build 20 smaller complexes to settle homeless people permanently in other parts of the city. Each of those facilities would charge some rent and would include support services for tenants. City officials have also secured 500 scarce federal low-income housing vouchers that they plan to use to provide apartments for the homeless.
Warren said he'll encourage other neighborhoods to embrace the complexes and to support low-income housing where the homeless could move.
"We will challenge any neighborhoods from taking the classic [not in my backyard] approach," he said.
