They have reasonable questions: How will the city prevent tenting? How will families be protected? What are the logistics of dealing with 300 people daily?
The July 19 article, “Residents worry homeless hub could turn North Park into another 900-block Pandora,” paints residents of North Park as fear-mongers exaggerating the threat of a homeless encampment moving into the community because of the proposed Dowler facility.The article gave weight to the argument that SOLID has answered all the neighbourhood’s questions at community engagement meetings — meetings plural. Not true.
One public meeting has taken place with the community at large, a meeting that was scheduled nearly four weeks after the hub’s announcement and held in a room too small to fit the crowd that attended. • How will the city address the logistics of 300 people moving in and out of the Dowler hub on a daily basis as they pass through popular public recreation areas of Central Park and the grounds of the Save-On-Foods Memorial Centre, travel along residential streets, and cross busy roads, including six-lane Blanshard Street and Dowler Place itself, which is heavily trafficked by Island Farms’ milk...
• If there is no danger to the community, what does the City of Victoria think of Victoria Police Department’s decision to assign extra community liaisons for North Park, as a direct result of the Dowler announcement?
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