Stop Seattle From Turning Our Parks Into Homeless Encampments

The city council should keep citizens safe, but this endangers our children and neighborhoods. No more needles on playgrounds!

This decision should be delayed until more acceptable options are brought forth. Seattle city parks should not be turned into homeless encampments along with all the attendant crime, drug use, and unsanitary conditions that might cause. These parks are tremendous assets for the city and the taxpayers who pay for them should not feel afraid or threatened for themselves or their children to use and enjoy them. Bad idea.

This HAS to stop! We are becoming a magnet for other cities homeless.

Enough of this absurdity!

Portland tried a very similar plan recently that proved to be a complete disaster. They changed course and shut it down rather quickly. This is an ill advised plan that completely ignores private citizen rights.

The state of Texas has launched a home less recovery program that is working. Maybe we can model them? I want everyone to have a safe home but the park is not a solution.

This proposed legislation is yet another sign the Seattle City council needs to be voted out.

I live across from Kinnear Park. We've had camping forever and are afraid to go into the park.

Since I have two different homeless people living right in front of my home who have been defecating in my front yard! I strongly oppose!!

Let's look at how another city has done this successfully. Portland tried this model and is now changing tactics. Please Seattle, we can come up with a better plan.

This is a completely irresponsible way to address the homeless problem. Putting children and neighborhoods in line for crime and unsanitary conditions makes no sense,

NO homeless in our public parks

I agree that this is a ridiculous idea. Opening our parks to homeless encampments will expose these public spaces, and in turn the people who use them, to an increase in crime, pollution, and an overall lack of control over how our public spaces are used. Furthermore, it seems like it will make it harder for outreach programs to reach and be effective for these people who, more than not, can use all the help they can get. This is enablement of a dangerous kind.

We need more control over illegal camping in our city -- not less!

Homeless people come here because Seattle is a good place to be homeless. We do not need to make it even more attractive by ruining our city parks. This is a terrible idea and I would like to know who thought of it.

This has been tried in Portland and it failed miserably.

Don't give the homeless rights that taxpayers don't have!

This proposed legislation is an abomination. It intcentivises bad behavior and lawlessness and rewards those who are more than interested in handouts than in living in a civil society. Homeless encampments become the responsibility of the city and this legislation makes no demands or requirements for those receiving free access to parks and other public places to clean and keep clean their encampments. There should be a work requirement for benefits received yet the city council has never discussed or implemented any such requirement. No wonder Seattle has become a magnet for those unwilling to work, in any shape or form, for the largesse this city provides.

Please don't turn our parks & green spaces into shanty towns

How is it okay, --EVER, to allow homeless to set up camp on little league or football / soccer fields, --or any public space that taxpayers pay to maintain and community centers and teams pay to use? Why do they have the right to set up camp in spaces utilized by others who happen to rent or own a home? I do not understand how or why it is (or was) ever being considered. It is just not right, or fair to other taxpaying citizens. We shouldn't be punished for finding a way to hold our heads above water, work 2 or 3 jobs, pay our fair share for upkeep of parks and fields -and sidewalks- to be run out of them. I know life is not always fair, but these outlandish suggestions are not helpful toward aiding the true needs of the homeless and are completely unjust and discriminatory to those who are not homeless.