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Until city staff submit its report in June, it remains unclear if any of the campsites will be removed from the potential list (Courtesy of the Black Leaders Collective)
After last week s widely panned release of a long preliminary list of city-owned properties that could be designated as sanctioned campsites for people experiencing homelessness,
City Council has shown some sympathy for the staffers who had little direction and a tight timeline for their effort. But members are still befuddled as to how some locations could ever be considered. A historic Black cemetery? The vacant Home Depot whose neighbors spent years working with the city on plans for its future? The Colony Park tracts with an ambitious public-private master plan for community revitalization, which has yet to break ground on a single project?