King County Calls Meeting On Tent City Plan
Posted: 4:01 pm PDT May 10, 2004Updated: 11:55 am PDT May 11, 2004
BOTHELL, Wash. -- King County has called a meeting Tuesday in
Bothell to explain plans to locate a tent city for the homeless in
a neighborhood between Bothell and Kirkland.
The meeting will be
hosted by King County Executive Ron Sims, who is running for
governor.The meeting starts at 7 p.m. at the First
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bothell, at 10207 NE 183 St.A meeting last week drew hundreds of neighbors angry that they had
been given little notice of plans for the homeless tent city in
their neighborhood.As a result, the county delayed the opening of
the tent city until next Monday.Two Bothell churches have offered
their property for the tent city, but organizers in the Share-Wheel
group of Seattle declined.A representative of the Share-Wheel
group, Anitra Freeman said "Letting people win by throwing temper
tantrums is never a good idea."She said "homelessness is a
community problem" and should not be sloughed off on churches.
Share-Wheel plans a camp for about 100 people for 90 days.A
similar camp has been moving around church properties in Seattle.
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