Tensions flare as $70K fence near Bishop Dudley homeless shelter gets blessing
VIDEO: Dissenter ousted as public outcry reaches crescendo
More than an hour of pleas to stop a fence from being built around a high-crime parking lot next door to a Sioux Falls homeless shelter weren’t enough to keep City Hall’s plan from moving ahead.
The Sioux Falls City Council on Tuesday evening signed off on a proposal coming from Mayor Paul TenHaken’s office and the Sioux Falls Catholic Diocese to fence a parking lot north of the Bishop Dudley Hospitality House that will entail the city taking possession of the property that’s long been a place where homeless individuals congregate.
But the decision didn’t come until after a lengthy hearing on the initiative, which will have the city leasing the Diocese-owned space and comes with an estimated price tag of $70,000, saw more than a dozen speak out against it, including one dissenter whose outburst prompted her removal from the city council gallery.
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