“What I know after living here in Santa Cruz for 21 years, . I can’t say it enough: Santa Cruz, y’all gotta step it up,” Santa Cruz NAACP President Elaine Johnson said.
Activist Reggie Meisler along with 11 local organizations and 38 activists says the City of Santa Cruz is issuing unlawful parking tickets and illegitimate abandoned-vehicle notices that unfairly target people living in vehicles along Delaware Avenue and surrounding streets near Natural Bridges State Beach. The city, he charges, does not have proper permission from the California Coastal Commission to limit parking in these areas. “These parking signs,” he concludes, “should be unenforceable.” He wants the city to stop this practice, which puts an unfair burden on those who are most needy.