Homeless camp residents in the Chilliwack River Valley could receive tickets this week
CHILLIWACK — Residents at unlawful homeless camps along the Chilliwack Lake Road corridor in the Chilliwack River Valley could receive tickets from the RCMP this week.
According to an email sent to Fraser Valley Today from a Chilliwack resident, an RCMP member advised a Chilliwack resident that tickets could be issued to some of the campers this week, possibly as early as today, Wednesday, Nov. 29, if higher priorities don’t come up for the RCMP. There will be a lead agency present alongside RCMP members if higher priorities don’t arise for police.
Campers are generally allotted two weeks to camp on Crown land, but this has not been strictly enforced east of the Vedder Bridge along the Chilliwack Lake Road corridor. While cleanup efforts have been focused on abandoned encampments, there’s been little to no enforcement directed at inhabited homeless camps.
In the past week, Fraser Valley Today learned that residents of the Island 22 camp at 45645 Cartmell Road will need to move out at some point, but there’s been no definitive time frame for their relocation from the encampment in Fairfield Island. There are concerns from a few Chilliwack residents that these individuals will relocate to the Chilliwack River Valley in case they have nowhere else to go.
