Stop Seattle From Turning Our Parks Into Homeless Encampments

This seems like a poorly thought-through solution to a serious problem.

I have already sent comments to Timothy Burgess expressing my desire to SOLVE the problem and that TOLERANCE is not a policy!

This must never be allowed to happen.

I STRONGLY appose this. Our taxes cover the upkeep of city parks so we can enjoy with our family (with young kids). There is no way we can continue to enjoy the city parks and comfortably let our kids run around what will essentially become a set of homeless camps.

Please, City Council, do the job you were elected to do. Work on a real solution for our city, rather than adopt something written by a liberal lobbying organization. Now is the time to lead!

This solution did not work in Portland.

I'm in favor of a compassionate solution to help address this problem and am willing to put my money where my mouth is and help pay for it in the form of taxes and levies (affordable housing, mental health care, etc), but this is a purely destructive way to attempt to address the problem. I don't know why the city council is even considering this, except possibly in furtherance of some non-evidence-based social justice agenda.

This will reduce the quality of tax payers that do not deserve this caveman life style

Kelsey Greeson

Seattle already looks like a third world city...we have to draw a line somewhere

Solving our homelessness challenge needs to focus on solutions that help move people into housing.

I strongly oppose this legislation. This does more harm to the people that actually live there and run businesses there. Homelessness is a big problem, but let's not ruin our parks, safety and neighborhoods. this solves nothing and only creates misery for everyone.

Listen to the voters.

I strongly oppose the idea of letting homeless people to live in the parks. Please watch how Salt Lake City reduces homeless people by 75%. It's success is even showed case in Daily Show with Jon Stewart.

This is not a solution. It will not help the homeless and will encourage urban campers to come to Seattle.

this does not help anyone and will dramatically reduce the quality of life in our city.

Homeless encampments in public parks and on public sidewalks is not the way to provide relief for the homeless! It was not an effective solution for Portland and other cities that have tried it.

This is not a solution to our dire homelessness situation. Our beautiful parks are a very special part of our city--actually,one of the only things we have left in the face of overdevelopment--let's not ruin them,too.

This is NOT the solution. Portland tried it and abandoned the program only months into it. There is a lot we can learn from other cities, this being a great place to start!

We need a compassionate and effective response to and prevention of homelessness, but this strategy is horrible.