The city council in Nanaimo, B.C., has rejected building a fence around the city hall parking lot, saying it would not effectively protect staff from the violence and disorder associated with a next-door supervised drug consumption site.
Although Mayor Leonard Krog originally considered the fence proposal to deal with increased levels of street disorder, violence, and drug activity on city hall property from the provincially managed Overdose Prevention Site (OPS), he joined other councillors at a July 16 city council meeting in deciding the fence would not be effective.
