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Residents urge compassion on homelessness and demand answers after Prospect Avenue towing during snow ban
Summary
At public comment, a homeless outreach worker asked the council to adopt compassion as a guiding principle and expand coordination of services; a Prospect Avenue resident described overnight towing after an emergency parking ban and asked the council to reverse and reimburse wrongful tickets.
Several residents used the public-comment periods at the Feb. 9 meeting to press the council on quality-of-life and enforcement issues.
Scott McCall, who said he conducts homeless outreach for a local nonprofit, told the council he knows roughly 50 West Haven residents who are homeless and urged the city to expand existing programs (public showers, warming center, city social worker) while changing…
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