VICTORIA A new community services tent has popped up near Victoria’s Beacon Hill Park to provide outreach support and health services to homeless people sheltering in the park. The city granted a permit to the outreach group after a previous iteration of the tent inside the park was found in violation of city bylaws and the Beacon Hill Park Trust. The city repainted the lines at the bottom of Cook Street near Dallas Road and installed cement barriers to carve out a location for the tent to operate. The tent runs on an emergency social services grant from the city and a permit granted to its operators, the Red Cedar Café.
VICTORIA The City of Victoria says homeless advocates and campers were mistaken in thinking that bylaw and police would dismantle a tent structure in Beacon Hill Park Thursday. This morning a small group of protesters chained themselves to the Community Cares Tent across from the Beacon Hill Children’s Farm. The large tent, which offers campers a place to congregate and the public a place to drop off donations, is illegal under the city’s modified overnight camping bylaw. According to the bylaw. the structure is too large to be placed in a city park. It also contradicts rules in the Beacon Hill Park Trust, according to Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps.
Flooded campers in Victoria s Central Park need immediate indoor shelter, say neighbours
Nearly 50 people living in an encampment in Victoria’s Central Park need immediate relief after their tents and belongings were flooded during Monday’s extreme weather, says the local neighbourhood association.
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