HomeMy WebLinkAbout09-20-23 Public Comment - E. Elzey - Homeless Encampments near Taxpayers HomesFrom:Eva Elzey
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Subject:[EXTERNAL]Homeless Encampments near Taxpayers Homes
Date:Tuesday, September 19, 2023 1:50:33 PM
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I’m the Property Manager of Sundance at Baxter Meadows Apartments. I have compassion for the
working families who have been displaced one way or another and are actively working towards
finding a new home they can afford. However, most who are living on the streets surrounding our
property are not working and have been “living” here going on 3 years. Every year they are getting
more emboldened by the media and the “Not for Profits” that enable and clean up after them. We
offer affordable housing to our hard working, tax paying tenants who actually feel victimized not
only by the drug users, the filth, the dealing of drugs, the noise from generators, fighting, animal
abuse, public defecating and urinating, theft from their patios and vehicles, transients high on drugs
wandering around our property day and night, jumping off the mail boxes into their pool at night,
the list goes on. They live in fear, but they also feel victimized by their local city council who keeps
kicking the can down the road as long as it’s not in their backyard. We’ve found human feces in our
pet waste stations, batteries and phones recharging and plugged into our buildings. Our trash
removal bill has gone up $500/mo. from the amount of trash they are dumping into our bins and
leaving on the side of the road by our property. We see endless bikes being taken apart and
tinkered on for days on end, while bikes are being stolen off their patios and cables cut from our bike
stands. There are Keep Out signs by their campers, aggressive dogs off leash and now a few of them
are mowing their own paths on private property into the weeds to use as their toilets when not
urinating outside their campers. This is getting completely untenable and if something does not
immediately transpire from this second attempt at addressing this crisis it will only get worse and
there won’t be any turning back. We cannot wait until more affordable home options are
constructed for them, we need an immediate solution as well as long term solutions. I’m sincerely
hoping someone actually takes 5 minutes to read this email.
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