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Denver’s “junker” vehicle law amended to include pause for people living in cars

ACLU, homelessness advocates not satisfied with bill that gives city more power to impound vehicles parked on streets

DENVER, COLORADO - MAY 4: Sheila Pendleton, 52, lives in her Hyundai Santa fe with her dog on May 4, 2023 in Denver, Colorado. Pendleton is currently staying in a church parking lot in eastern Denver that is one of the city’s sanctioned safe parking site. The ACLU and homelessness advocates are asking Denver’s city council to change a vehicles ordinance that has recently come up for a vote. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
DENVER, COLORADO – MAY 4: Sheila Pendleton, 52, lives in her Hyundai Santa fe with her dog on May 4, 2023 in Denver, Colorado. Pendleton is currently staying in a church parking lot in eastern Denver that is one of the city’s sanctioned safe parking site. The ACLU and homelessness advocates are asking Denver’s city council to change a vehicles ordinance that has recently come up for a vote. (Photo by RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post)
Joe Rubino - Staff portraits in The Denver Post studio on October 6, 2022. (Photo by Eric Lutzens/The Denver Post)
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The Denver City Council tweaked a new law aimed at giving police and parking enforcement officials more power to ticket and impound RVs, trailers, semis and damaged or abandoned "junker" vehicles on city streets on Monday.
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