On the morning of Friday, Nov. 3, the parking lot beside Courtenay’s Connect Centre played host to bylaw officials, RCMP officers, firefighters, homeless outreach workers, garbage trucks and paramedics.
City officials were taking action, responding to daily complaints from downtown business workers who could not use their parking spots because homeless were tenting in them. Supervised by bylaw and law enforcement officers, a homeless peer team co-operated smoothly with authorities and pushed everybody to clear the area, pack up their tents, and move to Simms Millennium Park.