Local News in Brief : Petitions Seek Better Treatment of Homeless
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A priest Tuesday presented Mayor Dan Young’s office with a petition signed by about 330 parishioners calling for changes in the city’s policies toward the homeless.
Father Wilbur L. Davis said he asked members of St. Joseph Catholic Church to sign the petition “to let the mayor and City Council members know that they are making quick assumptions when they think that the city’s residents want poor people to be harassed.”
Davis and other church and social service group members have criticized the city for seizing the unattended property of homeless people on public property and for threatening to enforce laws prohibiting sleeping in parks.
Another controversial proposal, which would have required groups to obtain conditional use permits before setting up soup kitchens in public park, possibly restricting them to industrial areas, has been delayed indefinitely to allow city planners to study other options, Planning Director June Catalano said.
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