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Residents press council on parked box trucks, gun violence and survivor care during public comment
Summary
Multiple residents urged the City Council to act on persistent box-truck and commercial-vehicle parking in residential neighborhoods, and community members called for more direct action and survivor care after recent shootings.
Several residents used the citizen-comment portion of the May 22 meeting to press council members about long-running neighborhood concerns and gun violence.
Box trucks and enforcement: Jacqueline Wagstaff and Gwen Silver described long-standing problems with large trucks and commercial vehicles parking on neighborhood streets. Wagstaff said code enforcement and police had visited but the trucks often returned; she asked whether bond funds would address sidewalks and street repairs in the area. "If you wanna get these people that are illegally parking on our block, it would have to be after 05:30," Wagstaff…
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