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CITY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW
RESOLUTION NO.
SERIES 2022
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW AMENDING RESOLUTION NO. 18301, AS AMENDED BY RESOLUTION NO. 18462,
DECLARING A SHELTER CRISIS, EXTENDING THE DURATION OF THE DECLARATION UNTIL JUNE 30, 2024
WHEREAS, on March 19, 2019, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 18301 to declare the existence of a shelter crisis in Mountain View due to the significant number of residents in the City without stable housing or the ability to obtain shelter resulting in threats to their health and safety; and
WHEREAS, on June 9, 2020, the City Council adopted Resolution No. 18462 to extend the declared existence of a shelter crisis in Mountain View due to a continued finding that a significant number of residents are without stable housing or the ability to obtain shelter, resulting in a threat to their health and safety; and
WHEREAS, all of the recitals set forth in R esolution No. 18301, as amended by Resolution 18462, continue to a pply with a revision to reflect an increase in the number of safe parking spaces available Citywide of up to 101 spaces (when all lots are in operation ), consisting of 68 spaces for oversized vehicles and 33 spaces for passenger vehicles, and a new program added in 2021, LifeMoves Mountain View (Project Homekey), which added 100 units of interim housing; and
WHEREAS, the County of Santa Clara’s most current biannual count of Mountain View homeless performed in 2019 rose from 416 homeless individuals in 2017 to 606 homeless individuals in 2019 ; and to augment the information from the County P oint-in-Time count, the City also conducts a street-by-street count of vehicles that appear to be in use for living purposes, which from 2017 until 2020, the count of vehicles in the public right -of-way used for living has ranged from 250 to 300 vehicles on average, with the highest count in July 2020 at 320 vehicles (combined on-street and in safe parkin g lots) and the most recent on-street count in January 2022 at 218 vehicles (this excludes safe parking lots , which since 2020 are counted separately from the on-street count); and
WHEREAS, Resolution No s. 18301 and 18462 declared a shelter crisis in effect until June 30, 2022, unless extended by the City Council;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of Mountain View hereby determines that the findings set forth in Resolution No s. 18301 and 18462 continue to apply.
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BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the City Council hereby amends, as authorized in Resolution Nos. 18301 and 18462 , to extend the shelter crisis declaration until June 30, 202 4, unless extended by the City Council, and to read as follows:
“BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the shelter crisis declaration shall continue to be in effect until June 30, 2024, unless extended by the City Council."
Except as amended set forth herein, Resolution No. 18301 , as amended by Resolution No. 18462, shall remain in full force and effect.
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