No on 302 | Solutions Not Safe Zones

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"Opponents of the Safe Zones 4 Kids ballot measure have argued that residents should be debating ways to reduce homelessness rather than moving homeless people further out of sight [and] sought to try to drive a wider conversation about homelessness." boulderreportinglab.org/2023/11/08/cit…

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We’ll need to show them a thing so hard and complicated, so contentious and time-consuming, so slow-moving and essential: We’ll need to show them a humane approach to homelessness. Time to work, #Boulder. 7/7

Months from now, when 302 inevitably fails to deliver on its promises—when Boulder residents experience no appreciable change in our perception of public safety—we’ll need to have something beyond a mythical ‘safe zone’ to show our children... 6/7

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"We can’t continue sweeping away people who have nowhere to go, it’s really that simple. Boulder — but really any Colorado city you can think of — needs solutions to homelessness, not safe zones." coloradonewsline.com/2023/09/12/enf… via @NewslineCO

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@compatidude @Doug_C_Hamilton Schools are already prioritized, but not as high as “reports of crime and threats of violence”. Why are we telling the city to invert this

@SolutionsNotSZs @Doug_C_Hamilton It prioritizes the same resources that are being used on clean ups now. As you know. It provides strong encouragement to campers to camp 500 ft away from schools and 50 ft from the routes to/from school. As you know.

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@compatidude @Doug_C_Hamilton Which resources does 302 direct to make this a reality compitidude

@Doug_C_Hamilton @SolutionsNotSZs But all of them would have been 500 ft from a school, and 50 ft from a route to/from school.

@notnowby Why?

NEW: “People camping outside near a school doesn’t automatically make them drug-addicted criminals — unless that’s the blanket approach we are going to take with homelessness. That shouldn’t be our official policy.” dailycamera.com/2023/11/06/let…

"Criminalization does not reduce the number of people experiencing homelessness. It breaks connections people had made with providers trying to help & exacerbates homelessness & the conditions that lead to it—such as health problems & racial disparities." usich.gov/news/collabora…

@smith4stevenson The city’s code already makes these activities illegal. If you don’t like how that approach is panning out, why should the city double down on it? And if the areas of most concern are concentrated, why are we telling the city to prioritize 80+% of the city’s surface area?

@SolutionsNotSZs Nope, we feel unsafe because of stuff like this: dailycamera.com/2023/03/20/bou…