The Santa Barbara County Supervisors unanimously voted to ease the advance notification restrictions required before county administrators order homeless encampments cleared out — “resolved” being the term of art — and reducing the length of time the county has to keep any personal belongings confiscated in such sweeps.
Under the county’s existing self-imposed rules, written warnings were issued at the targeted encampments no less than 72 hours beforehand. Now that time requirement is 48 hours. Likewise, it used to be that county crews would be responsible for storing confiscated materials for 90 days. Under the new rules, the new storage requirement is 60 days.
In a related move, the supervisors approved a brand-new parking restriction on oversized vehicles, barring them from parking along roads adjacent to row crops. As Supervisor Bob Nelson noted, the concern was the effect of human effluent discharged from such vehicles near where food is grown…