(FOX40.COM) — A safe homeless parking site has been scrapped by the city of Sacramento after a miscommunication between Sacramento County and city officials led to the displacement of dozens of unhoused residents that the site was set to serve.
An empty parking lot, located at Watt Avenue near Walerga Road, is where Sacramento County received 1.3 million dollars to create a safe parking site for about 30 to 40 people living in RVs and vehicles along Roseville Road.
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County officials say this miscommunication happened because the city of Sacramento conducted an encampment sweep of those camps and vehicles, which was around the same time that the county applied for a grant to complete the safe site project.
When November rolled around and Sacramento County announced that it had officially received the money for the site, that was the same moment officials learned that the people they planned to serve were no longer there.