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Hi Everyone,
After the City allowing the homeless encampment next to DSHS for two years, I have to say it's a very cruel and rude move on your part to make them move along just before winter.
I understand the code violations and the utterly disgusting mess this encampment creates, but that is how it has been for two years now. This seems like a knee-jerk reaction to Goodman
Sanitation's awful experience trying to keep porta potties there. It sounds like that problem is being mitigated and I'm asking you to postpone this impending November deadline.
Removing them from that site will just disperse those 29 or so folks into the wooded areas just a bit down the road onto County properties into neighborhoods where their survival will
be further tested along with many of the property owners in the area. They have nowhere else to go except off that property to other close by properties. I agree that for the winter,
it'll be safer for them and County property owners if they stay congregated where they're at - close to the DSHS services and warmth rather than straying off independently into the
woods making fires for survival.
Please, I'm asking that you just hold off until spring - March - to have them move along. It's a mercy plea for their sake (and as a property owner close by whose neighborhood is susceptible
to invasion by 'compromised individuals'). You can wait. You've been tolerant for 2 years now - another 4 months will make a huge difference in their lives but hardly make any difference
at all in the City's agenda.
Thank you for reconsidering.
Joni Blanchard