Post by legaltender on May 16, 2007 11:36:22 GMT -5
Berkeley finds a way to get homeless people off the streets. Tell them they can't smoke.
Under the plan, vagrants could be cited for taking a drag on the town's main drags. The Chamber of Commerce is enthusiastically on board.
As Mayor Tom Bates sees it, the alcoholics, meth addicts and the like who make up a good portion of the homeless population on Shattuck Avenue downtown and Telegraph Avenue on the south side of the UC Berkeley campus "almost always smoke." And because smoking bans are the hot ticket these days for California cities, why not meld the two as part of a "comprehensive package" for dealing with the street problem that Bates says "has gone over the top"?
In this case, vagrants could be cited for taking a drag on the town's main drags.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/05/16/BAG40PRP5U1.DTL&type=politics
Under the plan, vagrants could be cited for taking a drag on the town's main drags. The Chamber of Commerce is enthusiastically on board.
As Mayor Tom Bates sees it, the alcoholics, meth addicts and the like who make up a good portion of the homeless population on Shattuck Avenue downtown and Telegraph Avenue on the south side of the UC Berkeley campus "almost always smoke." And because smoking bans are the hot ticket these days for California cities, why not meld the two as part of a "comprehensive package" for dealing with the street problem that Bates says "has gone over the top"?
In this case, vagrants could be cited for taking a drag on the town's main drags.
www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/05/16/BAG40PRP5U1.DTL&type=politics