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Residents urge action on canyon encampment and alleged drug house; volunteers describe trauma-response work
Summary
During public comment residents urged the council to clear an encampment in Tungsten Canyon because of fire risk and described a persistent drug house on Bellflower Drive; a volunteer crisis-intervention group thanked the city for support and described its response statistics.
Several residents used the public-comment period June 10 to press the city for action on homelessness and neighborhood safety, and a volunteer crisis-intervention organization described its on-scene response work.
A resident, Ted Childress, said he had been in contact with the city’s homeless services and the police about an encampment in the lower portion of Tungsten Canyon and urged the council to clear the canyon’s defensible space because of fire danger. He said vegetation has…
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