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Residents, businesses press Bellflower council on homeless encampments, traffic and car-alarm nuisance
Summary
During public comment at the May 12 meeting, local business owners and residents sought faster patrols for encampment-related disturbances, asked for traffic-calming measures on residential streets, and reported persistent vehicle-alarm noise from a nearby repossession lot.
Several residents and downtown business owners addressed the Bellflower City Council May 12 with complaints about homeless encampments, neighborhood speeding and persistent car alarms that they say are affecting safety and business operations.
Loreen Duke, a dentist who identified her practice at Clark and Oak, told the council that people experiencing homelessness have been on her porch and prevented her staff from opening. “We arrive. The homeless are on my porch. We can't get them off. We can't go in our office,” Duke said, adding that deputies can take hours to arrive for…
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