Virginia Beach city leaders are looking at a new ordinance restricting people from being in city library parking lots after the facility has closed.
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However recently in Virginia Beach, library staff have had to pick up trash and even human waste in their parking lots.
“It’s just a beautiful place for the community,” Ken Williams who was visiting Central Library, said.
That place has been a little less beautiful because of trash that library staff say has been left by homeless people and those staying overnight in the parking lots.
John Hood Staff have reported that some cars have stayed in lots for weeks to months.
In some cases, library staff have even had to clean up human waste.