Santa Maria city leaders say it’s time for San Luis Obispo County to pay up for its share of homeless encampment monitoring and enforcement on land in the Santa Maria Riverbed.
A large portion of the riverbed land falls within San Luis Obispo County, but the proximity to Santa Maria homes and businesses led the city and Santa Barbara County to spearhead cleanup efforts.
As the closest jurisdiction, the city’s rangers regularly patrol the area at various times each day, but jurisdictional issues limit efforts to crack down on such issues as wayward shopping carts, City Council members learned…