Other: It’s my understanding that there is a cleanup and removal planned for the campsites near RCA park, the concrete plant, and other locations throughout the surrounding woods which is great. The environment has gotten exponentially dangerous in the Broadview area due to these campers including the recent gunshots which was not even close to the first time. I believe this is slated to be done by Sep 1. We still have numerous accounts of trespassing, fighting, harassment, and threats to the residents that have occurred just over the weekend. The police presence has been better but still insufficient for the amount of problems we have and are continuing to endure. What happens after Sep 1? This camp has been cleaned out before, and within a matter of days they start coming back. We are seeing the same people over and over causing issues to the families in this section of town. I believe an announcement, social media post, something is owed to the residents to give us some peace of mind that this is being addressed and will continue to be addressed. I think it took about a week or two last time before the camp was built up again and then neglected for months while the campers continued to harass the neighborhood. There have also been multiple fires lately and we consistently wake up to the smell of plastic being burned and people caught on cameras trespassing and scoping out houses. There are vacant houses also being targeted on Cherokee Dr. We do not want this problem to continue to blow up after the occasional removal of these campsites. A lot of these houses are starter homes for families and what looked like a promising new neighborhood/sub division is proving to be a dangerous place to start anything.

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Brian Giffen