San Francisco Homeless Decry Proposed Golden Gate Park Plan
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) - City officials are drafting legislation aimed at shutting down Golden Gate Park overnight. The plan to close the park between 1 and 5 a.m. is aimed at curbing violence and vandalism, but the plan isn't going over well with the homeless.
KCBS' Margie Shafer Reports:
Currently, visitors can be in the park anytime, but can't sleep there.
"There's not adequate resources in the city for the homeless population, and if the park is the only place for people to go, that's where they go," said Shucks, a homeless man. "They wake you up, sometimes nicely, sometimes not so nicely."
Shucks said there are two classes of homeless, explaining that the hardcore crack-heads are in the Tenderloin, not in the park.
"There are a lot of nomads, a lot of roamers, a lot of people who will come into town for a month or so before they split," he said.
The plan for closing the park overnight will have to pass through the Board of Supervisors. It has the endorsement of the Cole Valley Improvement Association.
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