Stop Seattle From Turning Our Parks Into Homeless Encampments
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Linda frkuska
10 years ago
By allowing this, our backyard will be the new 'jungle'. This is a terrible idea.
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Kathy Goodwind
10 years ago
Please do not allow this destruction to happen to our parks! It did not work in Portland why would you think it would work here?!
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Eric Hoskinson
10 years ago
Thanks
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Richard Hinsley
10 years ago
City parks are for taxpayers not the homeless.
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Brian Eike
10 years ago
Petition supported!
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Please do not allow our parks and buses to be used to house the homeless.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
terrible idea for all involved
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Mary Vance
10 years ago
We do not need camping in our perks for the homeless. This is not a solution. Stop pushing the homeless into our neighborhood, this is increasing crime and making neighborhoods unsafe for the taxpayers living in them and paying your salary. There is plenty of evidence from other cities that this does not work.
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Paula Gill
10 years ago
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Aaron Chapman
10 years ago
This is 100% unacceptable.
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Brian Mankinen
10 years ago
Let's establish/designate suitable interim/transitional camping areas, and provide appropriate social, waste disposal and law enforcement services in and around these camps. Let's NOT pass ACLU-written legislation to try an (ill-advised) experimental approach; which will only make future improvements in approach more difficult due to the legislated monetary penalties and fears of ACLU lawsuits. Wake up, city council members!
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Stewart Cole
10 years ago
Situations like this are why I rarely bring my family to the city.
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Krystalyn Hudson
10 years ago
Please don't allow the homeless to camp in our parks. There are other alternatives than parks and green belts.
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Please save our parks!
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Please defer this vote!
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Teresa Holland
10 years ago
STOP THE MADNESS! Give a hand up not a hand out!
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Molly Brady
10 years ago
No to encampments. Other cities have tried this and it does not work!
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Traci swanson
10 years ago
Not only does this do nothing to solve the problem it plays right into the hands of those want to live and play outside the rules that the citizens of these neighborhoods follow to make their homes and neighborhoods a safe place to be. Why should I pay the taxes for places that are no longer safe for me to use and why should I be afraid to walk down my own street without being accosted.
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scott baltzell
10 years ago
Do not give our parks to these people
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Anonymous
10 years ago
Please do not make parks available to homeless campers. I run a small family home daycare and take the children to the park every day. If there are homeless people camping at Salmon Bay Park, I will not be able to continue taking the children to the park. The children will lose out to the homeless campers!
By allowing this, our backyard will be the new 'jungle'. This is a terrible idea.
Please do not allow this destruction to happen to our parks! It did not work in Portland why would you think it would work here?!
Thanks
City parks are for taxpayers not the homeless.
Petition supported!
Please do not allow our parks and buses to be used to house the homeless.
terrible idea for all involved
We do not need camping in our perks for the homeless. This is not a solution. Stop pushing the homeless into our neighborhood, this is increasing crime and making neighborhoods unsafe for the taxpayers living in them and paying your salary. There is plenty of evidence from other cities that this does not work.
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This is 100% unacceptable.
Let's establish/designate suitable interim/transitional camping areas, and provide appropriate social, waste disposal and law enforcement services in and around these camps. Let's NOT pass ACLU-written legislation to try an (ill-advised) experimental approach; which will only make future improvements in approach more difficult due to the legislated monetary penalties and fears of ACLU lawsuits. Wake up, city council members!
Situations like this are why I rarely bring my family to the city.
Please don't allow the homeless to camp in our parks. There are other alternatives than parks and green belts.
Please save our parks!
Please defer this vote!
STOP THE MADNESS! Give a hand up not a hand out!
No to encampments. Other cities have tried this and it does not work!
Not only does this do nothing to solve the problem it plays right into the hands of those want to live and play outside the rules that the citizens of these neighborhoods follow to make their homes and neighborhoods a safe place to be. Why should I pay the taxes for places that are no longer safe for me to use and why should I be afraid to walk down my own street without being accosted.
Do not give our parks to these people
Please do not make parks available to homeless campers. I run a small family home daycare and take the children to the park every day. If there are homeless people camping at Salmon Bay Park, I will not be able to continue taking the children to the park. The children will lose out to the homeless campers!