City council’s intention to make downtown feel safer by spending $471,000 a year for three years on downtown safety measures is an action we can all get behind – in principle.
Like many other communities of a similar size and larger, Campbell River’s downtown core has become unpleasant to look at and is unsettling to walk through. People living on the streets and camping in wooded areas are contributing to that feeling of lawlessness whether they are directly to blame or not.
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