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Typical bait and switch bullshit. The City already owns a shitload of high rise parking structures that are always vacant at night, and have adjacent restrooms, near the building entrances. The tents could be set up at night and taken down in the morning. Chicken wire storage lockers might be a viable option for the campers to leave their stuff, during the day, and the only added expense. The buildings already employ night watchmen who have nothing better to do than pace the floors and watch TV all night. Let them earn their pay for a change.
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Mr. Kramer, a promise from Amanda Fritz, who is one commissioner and runs neither the housing bureau, nor the PDC, is not binding on the city. You got nothing.
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@Blabby, I don't know if you saw my comment on the last thread, but while it's probably true the city can't be bound to the Lovejoy lot, it's also true that Kramer has the city by the short hairs here: the city is committed by contract to find a suitable medium-term home for R2D2.

The city has taken on an incredibly tough job that is going to cost a fortune.
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Commenty Colin, the City has a contract with what entity? Has R2DToo formed a Delaware corporation?

The City possesses lots of property, which supposedly belongs to the public. The problem is that nobody wants to solve the problem of the squatters, until there is found to be a profit to be made in the endeavor. As Eric Holder puts it: "Never let a good crisis go to waste."

If City officials were sincere, they would open up a high rise fucking parking lot. This would get the blight of tents off the street, clear the sidewalks for pedestrians, and put a dry roof over the leaky tents.

As long as the citizens are inconvenienced, then the problem will be dragged out by leaving the squatters under foot, while the City and neighborhood groups pretend to be working towards a solution, until people get fed up enough to vote in a tax increase to be misappropriated instead of going to solve the problem, and the squatters will even then, still remain as further aggravation. It's the same ploy that voters keep falling for with bond measures for the County Library.

No matter how large a tax increase you ever vote for, it somehow is never quite enough. More, and more, and more, and more, down a bottomless pit to tax hell oblivion.
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I guess I need to see a copy of this agreement. If we really obligated ourselves to such a thing we really need to hire a new city attorney. Our currently one is grossly incompetent.

But I would argue that what they've done so far constitutes a "good faith effort".

Why the hell did we ever obligate ourselves to do anything for these people? They had no leverage at all. Why did we "negotiate" and "settle" with them. I guess I may never get an answer to that.
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Everybody hates them, Blabby, and wants them to leave. Citizens blame the mayor, city council, and the police for their being there. The leverage is that they aren't going anywhere, and the City can't make them go, without risking a civil rights lawsuit, but if they don't get rid of them, then the voters will get clear out City Hall.
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Fuckin' A Right Blabby!
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You know, maybe we should just hold Randy Leonard and Michael whatever-his-name-is owner of the property responsible for the well being of these 'down and outs' 'bums' 'victims of capitalism' -- whatever you want to call them.
Not us.

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