Multiple residents used the council's non-agenda public-comment period to raise concerns about use of public spaces, safety, and access.

Adrian Voor, who identified himself as a longtime Escondido resident and a fitness court ambassador, told the council that the fitness court at the downtown library had been "taken over by the homeless" and described people sleeping, eating, urinating and using drugs on or adjacent to the court. He said the courts were installed roughly five years ago with grant and city funding and are meant for public exercise. "They have made the court uncomfortable at the very least. They've made it unsafe and unusable," Voor said, and asked the city to enforce existing no-loitering ordinances and relocate signage to the fitness court.

A later speaker, Tracy (identified in the transcript only by first name), described repeated unsuccessful attempts over six months to get the main elevator fixed at what she called the former North County Fair/Murshops Mall. Tracy said she relies on a walker and cannot use the escalator, that code enforcement has not been helpful, and that the Americans with Disabilities Act had given the mall 10 days to fix the elevator or could shut it down. "It is illegal to run a mall without an elevator," she said.

Council members thanked speakers and requested that public-safety and code-enforcement staff follow up; staff responses in the meeting included a commitment to circulate contact information and indicated the police chief and community services staff had been contacted in response to the fitness-court complaint. No formal council action was recorded during the public-comment period.

The same public-comment block included broader criticisms about homelessness policy and shelter capacity and requests for the council to be more transparent on homelessness interventions, but those remarks were presented as public appeals rather than agenda items or formal motions.