This subsidy program is restricted to a subset of Albany residents (there will only be 30 beds available in the "Shelter", and the police have told many people that, they plan to severely increase their enforcement as soon as the "shelter" is up and running) and which is, essentially, designed to compel (at least) roughly 10 of the 40 "eligible" Albany residents to get cited and fined (unless they leave town, first), for violating AMC 8-4.3 and/or 8-4.4 (or any other provisions of AMC 8-4, for that matter). How does that, technically differ from enforcement of an ordinance, which (although written to apply to all people, from Albany or otherwise) will in (lame, but true) reality, only be enforced upon a subset of Albany residents (54, instead of 24), since not everybody in Albany has the need (or even the desire) to sleep on Albany's Waterfront? I say this because: Albany's Waterfront Area is NOT zoned for emergency/homeless shelter. Period. Yet, right there in the middle of Buchanan Street Extension, the City's Temporary Shelter is about to be deposited. I'm assuming that the City plans to issue a Conditional Use Permit, in order to allow Operation Dignity to have a "temporary shelter" set up on the Albany Waterfront (in violation of AMC 8-4.4), in which to run the "program sponsored or cosponsored by the City".
