No Encampments in Seattle Parks

Solve the homelessness issue before spending 100s of million dollars on the new waterfront park.

please resolve a dreadful situation. City Of Seattle Buck up and ACT!

The parks are becoming a disgrace, please honor your responsibilities.

Get rid of the tents, needles, garbage, feces from our parks. We don't need this.

As a volunteer forest steward in Lincoln Park for the last 13 years I am acutely aware of the damage to critical forest habitat occuring in our parks as a result of unauthorized camping. I'm also very aware that people desparately need homes. Housing people now will protect human and natural resources for the future!

Parks must be protected and preserved for future generations of people and wildlife. Allowing camping is unwise and unsustainable.

Encampments have destroyed vegetation which took more than a decade to grow on sites were hundreds of volunteers have worked. Impact of such camping can be long lasting and trying to repair it is very challenging and may take decades. Lack of enforcement makes it near impossible to have an encampment removed and when allowed it is not timely. Delay in removal is a problem because amount of damage and number of campers tends to increase over time. It is imprudent and unneeded to allow such restoration work or other capital investments to be destroyed. In the interim until tolerable indoor housing can be provided the city should limit camping to areas where it won't do long lasting harm and where better sanitation and other services can be provided for the campers.

I do not understand why the city officials cannot get a handle on the homeless situation in Seattle. We are being taxed out of Seattle yet they keep saying we need to raise taxes to property owners to take care of the homeless. These city officials need to quit wasting the funds they currently have on so called solutions that do not work.

Our parks and green space is what makes Seattle one of the greatest cities in the world. Allowing encampments completely degrades the resource by a few thousand individuals to the detriment of hundreds of thousands of residents. I agree with Danny Westneat- time to set up a homeless “refugee camp” meeting UN standards at the totally unused Terninal 5 and institute a zero tolerance policy for illegal camping in our parks, green spaces, and in our streets.

Urban dwellers NEED parks and the open space! We pay taxes. Let us have our parks!

This city has let our parks and neighborhoods be overrun by dry users and people are homeless and refusing help because they'd rather sleep in our parks. The parks we pay taxes to maintain and would like to enjoy with our friends and families, but no longer can.

The once beautiful community of Ballard is being trashed by these so called ‘homeless’ people who do not want jobs or help getting off drugs- there is garbage/ needles / human waste on the streets and in our parks. This whole freakin’ town is a dumping ground, these people harass and intimidate you on the sidewalks and in the parks they have taken over. It’s very sad that the city won’t just enforce the laws that the rest of us high tax paying citizens follow.

Keep it clean

Protect our parks - stop illegal camping. Stop illegal destruction of trees and plants in our parks.

I have a friend who is familiar with Bitter Lake Center. In the land around the center, there are often discarded needles. That is an extra concern.

This City is too white-bread. We definitely need another Property Tax Levy to make the town grittier, dirtier, filthier than it presently is. What better way to insure that than inviting more vagrants, squatters, heroin addicts and homeless.

Somebody MUST step in and responsibly manage are parks dept. It is becoming a very unhealthy place for families, and I’m afraid the road to recovery from this disaster may be insurmountable.

Parks are for everyone. Not just protected homeless.

Wake up. Act now to remove the encampments before further damage is done to the ecosystems. Before the State and/or Federal governments sue the City for endangering our native fish populations, protected song birds and migratory birds - because this is where destruction and loss of habitat leads. The continuing the current path is to create an ecological "super-fund" site for generations to come.

Wake up city leaders, you are destroying a beautiful city!!!