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Senior city managers spent weeks planning to clear out the Lower Patricia homeless encampment known as Moccasin Flats, in violation of an existing court order, internal emails show.
On Nov. 4, Chris Bone, the city’s senior manager of strategic initiatives and partnerships, outlined a plan for the Lower Patricia encampment in an email to city manager Walter Babicz and city director of public safety Adam Davey. Tohill also told her that several tents in the encampment were abandoned, and hadn’t been used in some time, and that his staff would advise city bylaw services manager Charlotte Peters, “where those tents are so they can be removed, and the surrounding area cleaned up.” “We followed up with our legal counsel regarding BC Housing’s proposal to begin transitioning individuals from the Lower Patricia encampment to the Knights Inn, on a zone by zone basis.
‘IMMEDIATELY REMOVE ANY TENTS/MATERIAL LEFT’ An undated meeting invitation indicates Davey set up a meeting involving senior city staff, RCMP Superintendent Shaun Wright and Tohill, to plan “a potential clean-up and consolidation of abandoned tents into fewer zones.” “As you may know, there are number of abandoned tents / debris, and we ought to plan to clean this up,” Davey wrote. “Although the injunction process is still ongoing, we believe this is an initial public safety step we can take in the interim.”
“As was the case with the George Street location, those moving will be provided with two totes to pack their belongings,” Bone wrote. “He asked about the ability of Bylaw to immediately remove any materials/tents left by those who are relocating. This will prevent the sale of tents/property to others .”
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