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Residents, business owners press Casa Grande council for homelessness solutions; one commenter proposes nonprofit-run encampment
Summary
During public comment residents and downtown business owners urged the council to address unsheltered people and property crime. A resident proposed opening an encampment run by a nonprofit on a state-owned lot; council staff asked the speaker to provide details to staff for follow-up.
Several residents and downtown business owners used the public-comment period at the Casa Grande City Council meeting to urge the city to accelerate services and enforcement for unsheltered people and to consider new site-based responses. The most detailed proposal came from Charles Ellis, who identified himself as a resident and described a parcel he said is part of the Martin Subdivision (parcel number cited in comment: 504220020). "I don't want Casa Grande to run it. I would like to open an encampment for the homeless, but I don't want Casa…
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