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Responding to calls from homeless advocates, the Anaheim City Council is set to review a controversial anti-camping ordinance intended to discourage homeless encampments in public areas.
Councilwoman Lucille Kring caught some flak this week for suggesting that homeless people could be ousted from city parks by turning the spaces into dog parks. But some frustrated residents are supporting her.
In response to resident complaints about homeless people in a city park, Councilwoman Lucille Kring suggested it be turned into a dog park. She also criticized churches for feeding homeless people at the park.
The seven-acre site was bought with money specifically for parks in or near the Platinum Triangle. But city officials want to sell the land and use the profits to improve a park somewhere else in the city.
The city recently purchased a plot of land near its border with Fullerton that officials say could be the location of Orange County’s first permanent, year-round shelter.
The council unanimously approved a new ordinance that bans setting up tents and storing personal property at city parks, a move that some say will prevent crime and others call the criminalization of homelessness.
People living on the streets in Orange County have few options
when they fall ill. A coalition of programs is working to improve
the situation.