A local homeless and housing rights activist has followed through on promises to appeal the renewal of the city's ban on overnight large-vehicle street parking.
Joy Schendledecker, who ran for Mayor of Santa Cruz in 2022 and one of the co-founders of the community group Santa Cruz Cares, is hoping to unseat incumbent Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson.
After going through multiple commissions, appeals and changes, the Oversized Vehicle Ordinance (OVO) is set to be enforced winter 2023 on a one-year pilot program. The ordinance will prohibi
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Reggie Meisler, an advocate for the unhoused, has a simple message for the California Coastal Commission members set to vote Thursday on the validity of Santa Cruz’s contentious oversized vehicle ordinance: Be wary. The city, he writes, has “had numerous opportunities to practice restraint” in ticketing and towing vulnerable people and has repeatedly proved itself untrustworthy. He says the ordinance is “discriminatory” and makes the lives of needy people worse.