The city of Tacoma is installing a series of permanent “no parking” signs along Marine View Drive in Northeast Tacoma as part of an effort to deter roadside homeless encampments.
In an email from District 2 council member Sarah Rumbaugh to her constituents, Rumbaugh explained that the city previously installed a series of temporary barriers along Marine View Drive from the Cliff House Restaurant to the Hylebos Bridge at East 11th Street in an effort to curb “the influence of the homeless encampments that this stretch has experienced.”
Rumbaugh said the city received criticism that the barriers are “unsightly” and as such is starting the process of cleaning up the “visual clutter” by replacing the temporary barriers with permanent “no parking” signs that city officials and the Tacoma Police Department will enforce…