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Residents urge different shelter locations, cite safety problems near Pete’s Place and proposed pallet sites
Summary
Multiple residents used the petition-from-floor period to press the council on homelessness, calling out dangers around Pete’s Place and opposing pallet-shelter sites near single-family neighborhoods, urging alternative locations and clearer community engagement.
Dozens of residents spoke during petitions from the floor, focusing mainly on homelessness, encampments and proposed pallet-shelter sites the city plans to pilot. The comments included personal reports of discarded needles, violent incidents, property break-ins and repeated calls for the city to relocate shelter or pallet-shelter sites away from residential neighborhoods.
The nut graf: The public raised repeated safety, economic and quality-of-life concerns about the concentration of street homelessness and shelter-related activity on the Siler/Cerrillos corridor (near Pete’s Place) and at proposed pallet-shelter locations such…
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