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FRESNO. Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Fresno City Council has added different instrumentality to its arsenal to tackle homelessness, a caller ordinance to people a increasing squatter problem.
The ordinance would assistance successful the removal of squatters astatine Airbnb and short-term rentals similar hotels, arsenic it enables spot owners to telephone the constabulary for the removal of squatters wrong 30 days of their arrival.
"We person not had thing connected the books to woody with it. Now, we person thing connected the books wherever we tin fundamentally enforce penalties to instrumentality them to jail, good them," said Fresno City Councilmember Garry Bredefeld, who represents District 6.
Bredefeld says those successful usurpation of the caller ordinance, which volition spell into effect Sept. 29, volition look up to a twelvemonth successful jailhouse and a $1,000 fine.
It's the latest enactment the assembly has taken pursuing Governor Gavin Newsom's telephone for section authorities to ace down connected stateless oregon hazard authorities funding.
On Aug. 15, assembly members voted to o.k. an ordinance to marque camping connected nationalist onshore wrong the metropolis illegal. That enactment volition spell into effect Sep. 15 and prompts instrumentality enforcement to region encampments connected each nationalist land. If violators garbage to permission they could look up to six months successful jailhouse and a $500 fine.
"People who don't privation help, we're going to proceed to spell aft them. We're not going to let them to proceed to destruct our community, make problems for concern owners, and radical successful their backstage residences. We're conscionable not going to let it," said Bredefeld.
The archetypal measurement successful further assertive enactment was besides introduced astatine the latest assembly gathering by Bredefeld, Fresno City Council Vice President Mike Karbassi, and Councilmember Tyler Maxwell.
The trio presented a program to marque trespassing astatine businesses connected backstage onshore unfastened to the public, amerciable wrong concern hours. Maxwell, who represents District 4, says it's 1 of the astir communal calls helium gets.
"Folks who are panhandling outside, are sleeping outside, sometimes they're sleeping wrong the businesses, they're defecating astir the businesses, and they garbage to leave," helium said.
Fresno City Council volition ballot connected the trespassing ordinance Sep. 12. If passed it would spell into effect 31 days aboriginal and would besides transportation penalties of up to a twelvemonth successful jailhouse and a $1,000 fine.
