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Council adopts municipal parking-garage rules; social-service providers warn enforcement could criminalize homelessness
Summary
The council adopted an ordinance establishing rules for vehicle access and use of the municipal parking garage at the municipal complex, prompting lengthy public comment from homelessness-response providers and residents who said outreach and housing resources — not fines and arrests — are the effective way to move people out of garages and into
The Toms River Township Council adopted a final ordinance establishing rules and regulations for the municipal parking garage and concourses at the municipal complex, including a framework for enforcement of unauthorized occupancy.
The ordinance passed on final reading after the council opened the floor to public comment; several providers and homelessness-response advocates urged the council to avoid punitive enforcement and instead fund outreach and housing solutions.
Monarch Housing Associates, a nonprofit that…
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