Springs residents only could be disappointed with their City Council’s decision Monday to postpone a measure reining in car camping. A crackdown was warranted.
At issue is a mobile version of the tents and lean-tos that pop up around town in parks, at roadsides and along waterways. In this case, dilapidated RVs and other vehicles serve as street-side campsites — undermining the community’s quality of life as well as local law and order.
The proposed policy, which is now off the table for half-a-year, was a simple and sensible one. It served city residents fed-up with vagrants living adjacent to (or in some cases on) private property or in taxpayer-funded public spaces. The proposal also showed compassion for those living in their vehicles — whatever their reason — by affording a measure of leniency…