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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – A caller Sacramento measure aims to supply taxation incentives to California concern owners who cleanable up stateless encampments connected their properties. AB 1435 would fto concern owners constitute it disconnected connected their taxes if they cleanable up trash from a stateless camp.
One specified concern owner, Raffi Pilavian, could beryllium straight impacted.
While showing our squad astir his International Torque Converters property, helium pointed retired galore campsites on the broadside of his fence. His household has owned the spot for much than 50 years, but helium says it conscionable became a stateless encampment astir 8 years ago.
“I've called the Highway Patrol twice. They said they're engaged doing different encampments,” Pilavian said arsenic helium pointed to immoderate campsites dug into the broadside of the highway.
He says these encampments marque him acrophobic for his ain and his employees’ safety.
“You spot this building! It utilized to person an enclosure connected some ends. They've breached done it truthful galore times, I mean, I had to instrumentality it isolated truthful I tin spot what's going on,” Pilavian said.
He says that past year, helium took matters into his ain hands and cleaned retired 1 of the camps connected his property. He says the radical surviving determination came backmost and acceptable occurrence to 1 of his buildings.
“I can't assertion security anymore due to the fact that they've canceled maine once, and they quadrupled my insurance,” Pilavian said.
Standard Sweets and Spices proprietor Surinder Pal relates to his frustration.
“Single ladies cannot adjacent travel to the store. They’re scared. That’s wherefore we person issues,” Pal said.
He says encampments extracurricular his store wounded his bottommost line.
“Our landlord is good. She cleans. But aft that, they marque a messiness again. She is not ever here,” Pal said.
The concern owners say, arsenic large of a occupation arsenic the encampments are for their businesses, they bash not privation taxation write-offs for cleaning up the campsites.
“I don’t privation their money. I conscionable privation them retired of here. Leave maine unsocial and fto maine bash my business,” Pilavian said.
Blackstone Merchants Association President AJ Rassamni says a taxation write-off is simply a band-aid, not a solution.
“If we lone enactment with the symptoms, we unrecorded successful the chaos. It's conscionable going to get worse and worse. It's not going to beryllium solved. Let's find the origin and let's halt the origin and astatine the aforesaid clip enactment connected the symptoms,” Rassamni said.
The measure precocious done the Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee Monday and is present headed to the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
