Palmer business owners, residents discuss behavioral issues, loitering downtown

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The forum was led by Palmer City Council Member Pamela Melin and focused on testimonies of personal experience before pivoting to potential solutions.

PALMER, Alaska - A recent uptick of what people in the city of Palmer are calling “acute vagrancy” downtown prompted the city council to host a public discussion on the issue. On Friday, Palmer City Council members were joined by the Palmer Police Department, business owners, residents, and other community leaders in the Matansuaks-Susitna Borough School District board room.

Business owners like Wes Artz who owns the Palmer Bar downtown, have been growing frustrated by the transient individuals yelling at pedestrians, panhandling, and leaving used needles in public areas. It’s a problem Artz said has grown exponentially since the closing of a campground in Anchorage.“Since they closed down Bicentennial Park in Anchorage it’s gotten really bad,” Artz said. “More than what the community can handle for our support groups that are out here.

“At least twice a day we’re dealing with vagrancy in some sort of fashion,” Shelton said at the meeting.

 

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You guys make laugh u think when they closed centennial Park some went to palmer there not to smart but ther not dumb no services ie free shit in palmer its all in anch with the homeless but your welcome to have a bunch yours are locals smoking lots of dope and booze

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