Members unanimously approved the bill prohibiting the city from extending its lease at 2100 W. Girard Ave., where the Parker administration quietly increased capacity last month.
Councilmember Jeffery Young, Jr. walks in City Council's chambers during a January meeting. He championed legislation this week barring the city from renewing its lease at a shelter site in Fairmount.at an existing shelter site last month to treat people who use drugs amid a broader effort to crack down on open-air drug markets. It prohibits the city from extending its lease at the state-owned 2100 W. Girard Ave. site when the current agreement ends in 2026.
Young, who took office in January, has aggressively advocated against the city referring people who use drugs to the site, even introducing legislation to authorize subpoenas for Parker and members of her administration to testify to Council on its use. But Parker implied that some Fairmount residents who have complained about open drug use near the site are embellishing.
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