Disbanded Camp At Parking Garage Forces Spotlight On Homelessness

Disbanded Camp At Parking Garage Forces Spotlight On Homelessness

TOMS RIVER – The image could have been lifted from a black-and-white history book: People with nowhere else to go, quietly occupying a public space to demand attention to a societal failure. But instead of a lunch counter in the 1960s South, this sit-in played out beneath the concrete ceilings of the municipal parking garage.   Mike Rizzuto, 42, a Toms River native and self-described independent advocate, is the man behind what he calls an encam…

What’s so hard about building a downtown parking garage? - Plymouth Independent

I read the Plymouth Independent on a regular basis. One of the biggest hindrances to any kind of development to downtown Plymouth is the lack of parking (“Can downtown Plymouth be more like Portsmouth?”). I have lived here for over 50 years, and it has always been an issue. When it gets busy, there is not enough parking available. The parking behind Town Hall helps but is not enough, and what visitor would even know it is there? For years there …