Lincoln Place: TENT CITY REPORT
By C.V.
Beck
Tent City is taking place weekly,
on Saturdays, from 10 to 5 pm, located at the southeast corner of
California/Frederick Streets, to the rear of Ralphs and the Ross stores parking
lot.
We remaining residents of Lincoln Place
refer to this free speech area as “Squirrel Square”. We have
delicious, unhealthy snax, chatting all day long about whatever and try to have
a few “yucks” despite our precarious and uncertain situation.
The CEQA (California Environmental
Quality Act) lawsuit, which is the “umbrella” under which all our
other cases will depend, will not be heard until September, 2007. (That would be
after Labor Day, naturally.)
In June, I
had to contact Environmental Health (that would be the Health Department to
those of us over a certain age) regarding lax practices from Ralphs...EH came
right out and issued a clean up report for fecal and other organic garbage left
around. The matter was cleaned up for that day and then, after that, the same
problems continue. Shopping carts with plastic bags full of discarded food
remain in the loading dock and around the dumpster area for days at a time
decomposing and attracting vermin.
I
have noticed, unfortunately, that similar problems exist at the Rite Aid rear
parking lot area. These events have also caused me to reflect on the lack of
adequate sanitation in the Ross, Ralphs and the Rite Aid toilets, which are
normally “substandard.” Trust me on this (Of course, you could
check it out for yourself...).
Also, I was
informed this month that one of our neighbors encountered a “dogwalking
business” person with 8 dogs on leashes,with no clean up materials
present, sitting on one of “our” park benches, letting these dogs
defecate. Needless to say, the situation was addressed in no uncertain
terms.
Posted: Sun - July 1, 2007 at 03:21 PM