By Jasmine Mendez and Rachel Uranga | LA Times
The Los Angeles City Council gave the go-ahead on Friday to tow illegally parked vehicles in large swaths of the city, granting workers more latitude to immediately remove RVs and other vehicles that homeless people sleep in.
Officials have been struggling to gain control over the proliferation of RV encampments after a pandemic moratorium on towing them was lifted two years ago. Since then, traffic officers had to go through a lengthy process to ensure the vehicles weren’t occupied. If they were, they had to offer housing outreach services.
Councilmember John Lee, who proposed the more expansive restrictions on camping, said the measure “puts our city back to where we need to be and hopefully meets the expectations of the residents of our city that we enforce the laws and rules that we already have on our books.”
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