Posted on 12/10/2018 10:08:17 AM PST by simpson96
A group of downtown Olympia business owners is seeking a temporary restraining order to stop the opening of a city-sanctioned homeless camp, arguing the city is violating its own ordinance.
The city is preparing to open a so-called mitigation site on a city-owned parking lot at Olympia Avenue Northeast and Franklin Street Northeast where homeless people have been camping out for months. Officials have said the site will have water, restrooms and garbage service for people in 80 to 120 city-provided tents.
The plan was a response to rapid growth in the number of tents in downtown in recent months, from a few dozen this summer to more than 300 by November.
A court hearing on the temporary restraining order motion could be held Monday, the same day the mitigation site is set to open.
“The City of Olympia has created a public nuisance by allowing, and even encouraging, the homeless camps that have proliferated all over the downtown…,” according to the plaintiffs’ complaint, filed Thursday in Thurston County Superior Court.
Plaintiffs say the city is proceeding at a “frenzied pace” on the mitigation site, and is violating its own ordinance on emergency-housing facilities, which was passed in June.
The ordinance says such a facility’s host agency must hold a meeting and notify nearby property owners, which the plaintiffs say didn’t happen. The emergency housing facility must be limited to 40 people and must be 1,000 feet from another site, according to the ordinance.
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More free stuff means more homeless well come.
Multiplying like bacteria in a petri dish.
“the city is violating its own ordinance”
Silly goose. Don’t you know the government is immune to the laws it passes..just like Congress and Obama Care.
Sure is different today compared to Americans during the 1930s when whole families worked at whatever jobs they could find, washing dishes in restaurants, cleaning streets,
and even their kids worked to help out. I know, I know, today we have welfare.....but I stand by the Americans strong willing to work....as compared to today.
My daughter, who is in her late 30’s and has lived in Seattle her whole life, lived in Ballard until five months ago. She and her husband now live in Louisville, an hour north of me. I moved here from Seattle in 2011.
She used to show me the homeless camps in Ballard. It’s one of the reasons they left the area.
Liberals: We love the homeless, just not where we have our businesses.
I’m with you . There were 6 kids in our family. I had a paper route after school and was the most popular babysitter in town. I’m glad we already visited Seattle before this.
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