Following the firing of Burien's planning commissioner, 11 city commissioners and advisory board members resigned en masse in support for their dismissed colleague.
about widespread drug use and crime coming from the encampment. Afterward, the city claimed Schaefer violated Burien’s ordinance by “sending, directing, or encouraging the unhoused to camp on park property.”
DeVito and another resigning commissioner, August Hahn, told KOMO News that Schaefer broke no laws when he offered guidance to the homeless regarding the public areas in Burien where they could set up camp."We should be coming together to solve these problems, not trying to find blame when the city council's not willing to do anything," added DeVito.
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