ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Some south Anchorage residents are fiercely pushing back against a LaFrance administration proposal that includes potentially designating an area off 104th Avenue and C Street as an overnight homeless parking site the administration argues would better support people sleeping in their cars, known as vehicular homelessness.
“This is intended to reduce illegal and unsafe car camping and the impact of unmanaged vehicles in residential and public areas during the summer months,” the LaFrance administration wrote in an information sheet. “It is a seasonal public health and safety measure to help prevent people from parking in unsafe, unauthorized, or high-traffic locations.”
“No site has been selected yet,” the administration goes on to write. “In preparation, the Municipality is evaluating potential sites on Municipal property, including an undeveloped Municipal right-of-way running through the I-2 heavy industrial zone located south of 104th Avenue and east of C Street.”…