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Resident urges Beverly to remove ‘no loitering’ sign from gazebo and pursue noncriminal responses to homelessness
2142189 · January 22, 2025
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Summary
At the Jan. 21 Beverly City Council meeting a resident cited a ‘no loitering’ sign on the Beverly Commons gazebo and urged the city not to criminalize homelessness, calling for rehabilitation-focused responses; the Rotary Club was named as having placed the sign.
Mike Sperber of 15 Ive Street told the Beverly City Council during the public-comment portion on Jan. 21 that a “no loitering” sign attached to the gazebo in Beverly Commons discouraged unstructured public use and, he said, exemplified a broader tendency to criminalize people experiencing homelessness…
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