2/6/18, "Seattle is putting fences under its bridges to keep [homeless] campers out--and some say that’s wrong," Seattle Times, Scott Greenstone
"Seattle is putting fences under some bridges where homeless camps set
up. The city says it’s to prevent fires, but some City Council members
are pushing back.
When Mike O’Brien, Ballard’s Seattle City Council member, biked up
the Ballard Bridge last Thursday night, he counted five tents camped
under the north ramp.
He went back Tuesday, and those tents were gone. The underpass was
fenced off, and workers were drilling holes to put up a 10-foot-high
spiked fence to prevent homeless people from camping there.
The
price tag on this fencing: $100,000 for both sides of Northwest Leary
Way at the Ballard Bridge. That money, O’Brien reasoned, could have
housed those five households in apartments for a year.
“So
where are they now?” O’Brien said, with construction under the bridge
behind him almost drowning him out. “They didn’t go into housing. They
likely didn’t move to North Dakota. They’re probably three blocks from
here, next to some business.”
O’Brien’s question underscores the ongoing public debate about where
the estimated 5,500 unsheltered homeless people in King County should be
allowed to camp.
As Seattle has opened six authorized tent camps in the past two-plus
years and deployed a team to coax people out of hundreds of unauthorized
camps, it also has increasingly used fences and other infrastructure to
close off some public spaces.
Seattle’s Department of Transportation (SDOT) installed bike racks in Belltown last year, and told The Stranger in December they were explicitly designed to keep people from camping there.
Backlash has gradually built
among City Council members. In December, Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda
wrote a letter to SDOT’s director criticizing the use of bike racks to
discourage camping.
“Continuing to advance the notion that hostile architecture should be
used to inconvenience those who are unsheltered is misguided,” Mosqueda
wrote in the letter.
The agency plans to remove the Belltown bike racks in the next four to six weeks, SDOT said in a statement.
But SDOT does not plan to halt
construction of the fences in Ballard because they are important for
safety, the agency said — a position shared by at least one Seattle
business group.
“SDOT’s focus is to maintain the structural integrity of the bridge
and keep our communities and commuters safe, especially following a
series of reported fires,” SDOT said in a statement."
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