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Grover Beach cracking down on homeless camping

November 1, 2025

By KAREN VELIE

In an attempt to garner control of homeless camping on public property, the Grover Beach City Council voted on Monday to lower the warning period from 72 to 48 hours that a person needs to move their belongings.

Anyone camping on public property for more than 24 hours could get a warning to move within 48 hours. If the homeless person does not remove their property withing 48 hours, city staff will remove the property, throwing away trash and temporarily storing a person’s property for pickup.

However, the city can remove a campsite without a 48-hour notice when there is probable cause for law enforcement officials to believe that illegal activity, other than camping, is occurring in the area or in the event of an emergency. In cases of danger to human life or safety, the city suggests the campsite should be moved rather than removed.

 


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Now if they could just find all those disappeared Billions the feds have sent for the homeless, there just might be a place they could actually call home?


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Ouch … Question tho? If the “many” and “wake up” due to being “fence in . In the desert eating rice” and become “useful” … Were would you say id find such a desert??

Useful sounds brand new? Never heard of the term. Lol


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Plenty of desert south of the border.


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“Homeless”? Most of these people are very lazy drug addicts, drunks and mentally ill that migrate here from other states to enjoy newscums benefits and our California weather. Build a fenced and guarded encampment in the very hot desert. Feed them a daily portion of rice and water and let them figure it out. Many may awaken and become useful members of society


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Spoken like a true “Repubunazi”


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Not a republican nor a very hypocritical Dim. How many of these vagrants are you housing? Feeding? Cleaning up after? Give me your address and I will send a dozen or so to your house for dinner and potty


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Agree, the term “Homeless” is used too often. “Vagrants” may be better.


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Thx to Newsom…


SAFE Task Force: A statewide task force created to prioritize and remove encampments on state rights-of-way in California’s ten largest cities.

Model ordinance: Newsom released a model ordinance to help local governments address encampments, which includes restrictions on persistent camping and a requirement to offer shelter before clearing an encampment.

Funding: The state is providing funding and stricter accountability measures to local governments to help with encampment resolution and housing solutions.


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Nah…

Newsom and our special needs legislature need to drop another 25-30 billion dollars of taxpayer’s money to all the NGO’s that have no accountability. We saw some great results and that’ll definitely fix the problem THIS time around. Right?


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Word !!


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Smart idea for Grover Beach!

Hassle the homeless enough and they move to neighboring Cities, problem solved!!!


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Bwaa ha ha ha Christmas is even round the corner COULDN’T BE MORE PERFECT timing ?? Huh??


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Let’s see if I get what GB has implemented to handle camping on public property. Changed the warning period from 72 to 48 hours after 24 hours, 48+24=72 So the police have to document who is camped where. Then return in 24 hours issue a warning. Then in 48 hours return to see who’s still there and remove them and their shopping cart of treasures. Unless the camping is a danger like say on Grover Beach where you could get hit by a dune buggy then you are moved not removed without warning.

Wait, forget the last part Grover has no beach.


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Grover City LOL


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Perhaps Grover Beach is merely creating a new law that provides no homeless solutions but of course self creates costs and new problems such as municipal enforcement, administration and overhead costs and of course possible non-profit and consultancy opportunities should be expected once the problems and costs become a reality.


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Make the junkies hate being in your town so much that they leave it. That sounds like a good enough strategy to me.


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Like…you mean now, after we’ve all paid big bucks to clear public land, the transients will just settle into the new private parking garages going up on the ground floor of 5-story developments in Grover.


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