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Carbondale residents ask council to lift camping ban and designate site as warming center closes
Summary
At the May 13 Carbondale City Council meeting, residents and service providers urged council members to reconsider the city's camping ban, identify a designated camping area, and address shelter gaps as the warming center prepares to close May 17.
At the May 13 Carbondale City Council meeting, a resident experiencing homelessness urged the council to lift the city's ban on camping and designate a safe place to camp after the community's warming center prepares to close.
"I come to speak on behalf of all the homeless that reside within Carbondale," said Erica (Eric or Erica) Buecher, who identified themself as living without a fixed address. "I am here to ask for a lifting of the ban on camping within city limits, as well as a designated area for homeless people to camp." Buecher suggested a site across from the creek between East College and Grand Street.
Why it matters: speakers at the meeting said people experiencing homelessness in Carbondale face repeated displacement and harassment and that the pending closure of the warming center will increase the number of people living…
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