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Oh brother. Don't people have more important things to worry about. No one should be allowed to camp in public places without permits. Period. Enforce the laws, get these people into long-term shelter or out of Seattle. It's really that simple. Stop quibbling over trivial things like 'hostile architecture'.
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How many of these CM's do you think would actually have the backbone to publicly say they support preventive measures to keep vagrants from camping all over our city? They'd be hung out to dry by the homeless enablers. Nevermind the fact that it's a lot more expensive to repeatedly send in teams to evict these people and clean up the mounds of filth they leave behind.

As for the term "hostile architecture:" If a property owner doesn't want people camping in doorways and making customers or tenants uncomfortable, that's their business. They aren't obligated to allow people to camp and shit on their property. And really? Blue lighting in public restrooms that makes it hard for people who use drugs to find a vein, is considered hostile architecture? What, like they have some constitutional right to shoot up and pass out in your bathroom? Are we being cruel if we don't provide comfortable couches for them as well?
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Taxpayers funded tents and beds would be a good idea. Of course with the nice, enclosed-living and business quarters in wintery Seattle a nice disease outbreak could help with those increased homeless deaths this year and then liberals can have as many bike racks as they want. Remember! It’s all about impressing those foreign investors!

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I support any Councilmember that has the political will to clean up the shitshow on the streets of Seattle. If people got their heads out of their asses and traveled, they would see that the situation in Seattle and west coast cities is unique to our culture. No other cultures rich or poor tolerates this kind of zombie apocalypse. We shouldn’t either.
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Speaking of bikes and hostile architecture, I'd like to complain about the hostile bikes parked all over downtown in the way of pedestrians on already crowded sidewalks. Whose bright idea was it to leave those stupid bikes everywhere? Why is a private company allowed to obstruct sidewalks all over the city? Boo Hiss.
6
Obviously homeless people should be housed in those neighborhoods where the wealthy citizens live. That way, everyone will share.
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I think the idea for your series "Where they stand" is an interesting vehicle to get our council members to articulate their perspective. The question posed this time seems a bit like a softball thrown over the heart of the plate. Odd that you only got 4 responses. But since all of our council folks all basically have a similar pretty far left perspective, I think we can imagine they would all say what these 4 said. How about next time asking, "Considering that two city-funded studies previously concluded that we were spending enough money on the homeless crisis, we just need to spend it on solutions that work, why are you focused on increasing tax funding?"
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Our city council loves unrequested bike parking. When they're not using them to block homeless folks they're actively re-writing the building codes to mandate 1:1 bike parking:unit of housing at microhousing and apartments as well as making light rail station build bike parking for 7% of their peak AM passengers. Not bike racks, but weather protected and with stalls/lockers.

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If only we had a real winter. One where it dipped into the teens and twenty's every night for several months and during the day, rarely got above freezing. That would cure a big part of the problem.
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@10 no it wouldn't. See Anchorage Alaska.
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Nobody mentioned protecting bridge infrastructure from fires and explosives (like stockpiled propane tanks)? Nobody mentioned how to protect pedestrians and drivers when people continuously camp in dangerous areas and do not obey signs or enforcement? How many super tall, expensive fences have to be built, entirely blocking off public areas because people aren't able to follow laws? City council should be working on improving our shelter system and ending urban camping. Period.

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