"The owners of 20 vehicles 12 of who were offered and declined both interim housing and an offer from the city to buy back their RVs have congregated at the South San Jose parking lot on Coleman Road for the past two weeks, sparking complaints from neighbors and leading San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan to admonish other elected officials and the transit agency for allowing the unsanctioned encampment without proper planning."
"We take a very structured, disciplined approach to opening a new site and once you sanction something, you own it, Mahan said in an interview with Bay Area News Group, noting he's been in contact with VTA officials. I believe that public agencies and our elected leaders need to think these things through before encouraging folks to congregate on another agency's land I appreciate the VTA put out their statement and they've created a deadline and they are creating some accountability because this simply isn't the way to establish a safe parking site."
A large group of RV dwellers who left Columbus Park before an encampment sweep settled at VTA's Almaden parking lot and now face a looming deadline to leave, marking the fourth forced move in over a month. Twenty vehicle owners, twelve of whom declined interim housing and a city buyback offer, have been at a South San Jose Coleman Road parking lot for two weeks, drawing neighbor complaints. Mayor Matt Mahan criticized elected officials and VTA for allowing an unsanctioned encampment without proper planning. Many RV owners refuse to surrender vehicles and seek extensions or alternative parking, risking further abatement and displacement.
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