Seattle parking laws to no longer apply to "homeless"

[Alpine]

Because we all know how well Ed Murray's "free" vagrant parking lots for drug-den RVs and broken-down cars worked out and because people thought they couldn't get any dumber than "safe injection sites" for narcotic users, it's time to remind you things can always get worse.

Welcome to Seattle, where the ENTIRE CITY will serve as a parking lot for drugged out vagrants.

That's right, under a new ordinance being drafted by the Clowncil, parking laws will no longer apply to vagrants.
http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-new ... ordinance/

Under the program, police would be free to exempt participants in good standing from several different parking ordinances. That includes laws allowing cops to boot and tow vehicles whose owners have four or more unpaid parking tickets, and rules forcing parked vehicles to be moved every 72 hours.

The aim, O’Brien said, is to provide targeted services for people looking to transition out of homelessness. The ordinance will free them from racking up parking-related fines and penalties that often prevent the homeless from securing apartment residences, he said.

Look at their lame attempt to deny the obvious:

“We’re not waiving parking restrictions or parking enforcement on any subset of the population,” he said. “If you are constructively participating in the program, we would work to be flexible.”

Of course that's EXACTLY what they are doing. And by "constructively participating" he of course means being present to necessitate more welfare $ in Freeattle as well as votes from their prized hostage-constituency.

This is how it would work at FIRST:

The program would create between 40 and 50 safe-parking zones scattered throughout the city. Each one would be small in scope and accommodate around six vehicles.
The ordinance also calls for police to create protocols for tracking vehicles being used as residences, and an amnesty period for participants who have received multiple parking fines.

Scattered throughout the city. "Small in scope," but how do we know it will change?

Still, key aspects of the program have yet to be worked out. Details like where exactly in the city participants in the program will be allowed to park their vehicles free from restrictions are yet to be determined, O’Brien acknowledged.

So what happened with the previous social experiment?
Oh yeah...

Under the pressure of complaints from city residents over sanitation and safety of RVs, Mayor Ed Murray in 2016 issued an executive order creating several “safe lots” for people living in their vehicles. But city officials eventually pulled the plug amid rising costs.

Someone DID try injecting a tiny bit of sanity:

Phil Cochran of Safe Seattle needled O’Brien personally, asking “Do you believe that this ordinance will result in more RVs and more homeless junkies?”

I think we all know the answer, and even the SeattleSlimes admits it:

The number of people using their vehicles as residences has increased in the months since. A 2017 count of the county’s homeless found around 900 vehicles being used as residences in Seattle.

If you built it, they will come. Want to start a pool on the count of vagrants living out of their cars by 2020 if this insanity passes?

So, I have a question, who here would be happy to have their house alongside these parking-camping zones?
Wait, I take back what I wrote above, it won't be the ENTIRE city, I guarantee you none of these zones will be within 4 blocks of any council-member's house or the mayor's house.

[WaJim]

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parking laws will no longer apply to vagrants.

My Toyota looks pretty rough...whats the parameters for getting one of these parking permits.?

I can throw a sleeping bag, a bar of soap in a baggie and a thermos in the front seat.

[skey]

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parking laws will no longer apply to vagrants.

My Toyota looks pretty rough...whats the parameters for getting one of these parking permits.?

I can throw a sleeping bag, a bar of soap in a baggie and a thermos in the front seat.

Leave out the bar of soap and you are in.

[dj_fatstyles]

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parking laws will no longer apply to vagrants.

My Toyota looks pretty rough...whats the parameters for getting one of these parking permits.?

I can throw a sleeping bag, a bar of soap in a baggie and a thermos in the front seat.

Leave out the bar of soap and you are in.

dont forget a couple needles on the passenger side floor to top off the "look"

[skey]

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parking laws will no longer apply to vagrants.

My Toyota looks pretty rough...whats the parameters for getting one of these parking permits.?

I can throw a sleeping bag, a bar of soap in a baggie and a thermos in the front seat.

Leave out the bar of soap and you are in.

dont forget a couple needles on the passenger side floor to top off the "look"

Ooops. I forgot. My bad.

[Guntrader]

Lynnwood enacted some ordinances to combat the vagrants that hung out by the Labor Ready back in the late 90's, early 2000's.
No RV's on the street for over 4 hours.
All cars must have intact glass, trunk, hood, doors, and air in the tires.
Can't sleep in any vehicle on a street or other public property.
Public urination is mandatory jail.

When criticized for arcane laws and no homeless services the police chief responded that they would be happy to give the homeless some hot meals and a place to sleep in their jail.

(They also charge by the night for staying at the jail. If bums don't pay, cops can pick them up at will on bench warrants. Most of them finally end up moving out of the city limits, which is the goal.)

The RV laws are selectively enforced. Neighbor of mine had his parked in front of his house for 2-3 years without any problems.
Try that in front of a business or someone else's house, expect it to be ticketed and towed the next day.

[Pablo]

Need rusty van meme. Stat.

What the actual FUCK??

Well shit we GIVE these lazy, mentally ill, mostly addicted people everything. Shit, here's my IRA's, 401K, SS check that I worked my whole life for (peanuts), my cars, my property, fuck shit yeah you'll be needing some ammo with those guns. NEED anything else? Help yourself.

[AR15L]

Need rusty van meme. Stat.

What the actual FUCK??

Well shit we GIVE these lazy, mentally ill, mostly addicted people everything. Shit, here's my IRA's, 401K, SS check that I worked my whole life for (peanuts), my cars, my property, fuck shit yeah you'll be needing some ammo with those guns. NEED anything else? Help yourself.

[L_O_G]

My cousin live in a nice big house off Myers Way in South Seattle for many years, and just recently it was listed back up for sale. The wife and I were out and about last night and decided to swing by there to see what it now looks like.

Ho-Lee-Fuck! All of Myers way is lined with RV's, pickups with campers, tents, a full on fenced in homeless encampment and garbage everywhere. As we got back on 509 heading south you can see another homeless camp up in the greenbelt off the freeway. Unfucking real.

[Pablo]

Liberal leaders, making people, through force of government, give shit up makes those same liberal leaders feel good and remain in power.

Mission accomplished!

[TINCANBANDIT]

I say we go to the junk yards and buy 100 old beater cars and over-night park them all over the city, offer them as shelter to the homeless. The goal, would be to make it impossible (it is already close to that) for anyone to do business in Seattle.....

[Pablo]

I say we go to the junk yards and buy 100 old beater cars and over-night park them all over the city, offer them as shelter to the homeless. The goal, would be to make it impossible (it is already close to that) for anyone to do business in Seattle.....

Hell yes. We can declare ourselves homeless asexual free heroin victims of right wing hatred.

[Mediumrarechicken]

I don't understand how people that run a city don't want it nice looking. They are mental.

[AR15L]

I don't understand how people that run a city don't want it nice looking. They are mental.

I wonder if they are using the old reverse psychology on us.
i.e. Don't fix the streets - then ask for more money to fix the streets.
Let the immigrants illegals in - then ask for more money to pay for them.
Let them park junkers & RV's all over, (that cause thousands of problems) - then ask for more money to "clean up the mess".

etc.

[hkcavalier]