Cooperation Needed to Provide Toilets for Homeless

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If it isn't the classic no-win situation, it has to be close.

A portable toilet that had been in use at a community garden at 101 S. Sixth St. for several months was ordered removed by city of Yakima officials because it violated municipal codes. Portable toilets are for temporary use -- construction sites and gatherings such as the downtown Farmers Market, for example -- and this one had become a quasi-permanent fixture and magnet for use by the homeless.

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Cooperation Needed to Provide Toilets for Homeless

And once something becomes a magnet, it naturally brings with it the problems associated with gathering places. As we reported ear...

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