1-year Extention for Hangtown Haven
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City Council voted 4-0 to allow the camp to continue to operate until Jan. 25 after meeting the city’s conditions for winterizing the encampment and removing all sex offenders from the camp and to allow them to apply for 90-day special use permits, exempt from environmental quality review, until Nov. 15, 2013, when the encampment will be permanently closed
It was a jubilant crowd that left Tuesday’s Placerville City Council meeting as a last-minute alternative rescued Hangtown Haven, the city’s only legal encampment, from imminent closure to a year-long stay.
Hangtown Haven at 1688 Broadway in Placerville is a temporary solution to the nationwide problem of homelessness. In July Hangtown Haven Inc. was granted a 90-day temporary use permit for a trial-run legal encampment for the homeless to determine if such a facility could succeed. The permit expires Oct. 26, and Hangtown Haven Inc. applied for an extension of the temporary permit until Dec.1 in order to have time to negotiate a long-term special use permit and a lease agreement with the owner of the property, Barry Wilkinson, where the camp is located.
A Neighborhood Chat on Oct. 15 between city staff and the public evidenced ...
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