The Santa Cruz City Council voted last week to approve an up-to-$250,000 environmental cleanup contract for the Pogonip portion of the encampment. Occupants were given notice Monday that in one wee…
SANTA CRUZ — Randy Grisback knew his deadline to get everything he owned packed and moved by 9 a.m. Monday, but came up short.
“This is going on my seventh year now. But I’m closer than I ever have been, they’ve gotten me closer than I ever have been to getting housed,” Grisback said of his time spent on the streets. “I see a light at the end of the tunnel, so I’m sticking it out. But I always have hope, I never give that up.”
A homeless encampment along Highway 9 in Pogonip increased in size after last fall’s closure of the San Lorenzo Park Benchlands encampment closure. Santa Cruz Homelessness Response Manager Larry Imwalle said that the rugged hillside nature of the Pogonip encampments will require a more flexible approach to closure — on both timeline and proper spacing between cleanup crews and remaining occupants — than the flat Benchlands camp. The phased approach may extend through the month of June, he said.
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