campThere are 157 parks in Abbotsford, and now that an updated parks bylaw has officially been passed by council, homeless people will be allowed to camp overnight in all of them except 3.  Exhibition Park, Mill Lake Park, and the park around Civic Plaza will not allow camping at any time….everywhere else, people without access to shelter can camp between 7pm and 9am.  This brings the city’s bylaw in line with a BC Supreme Court decision last year.  As the mayor told us, the judge said the homeless camp on Gladys is unsafe, and the plan moving forward is to respectfully dismantle that camp, and that includes working to find housing for the people there who want it.