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Residents urge tighter parking rules and more housing transparency amid rise in visible homelessness
Summary
In an extended public comment period, dozens of Crescent City residents pressed the council for clearer development oversight, better sanitary services for encampments and stronger parking rules to address RVs and trailers near multi-unit housing.
Dozens of residents urged the Crescent City Council to confront a surge of visible homelessness, an influx of oversized RVs and what speakers said is a lack of transparency around recent housing projects.
The public-comment segment—about an hour long—opened with Gloria Corron, a Crescent Arms resident, who said RVs and campers are parking on nearby streets, using dumpsters and leaving human waste and animal excrement on property. “They don't observe the parking ordinances,” Corron said, asking the council to amend parking rules to bar oversized recreational vehicles on side streets near vulnerable housing.
Other speakers recounted seeing people with shopping carts near the county transfer station and along Highway 101, and many connected these…
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