Agreed - hard to trust an article with a title of "City puts stop to homeless outreach"... no bias that I can detect. :scratchheI understand the need for the permits, but as the OP said, you would think they could work something out. As is the case with most stories like this I'm sure there is information we are missing.
Dimes to dollars someone, somewhere, complained. That's really all it takes in cases like this.they were doing this for a year so the couple must of started doing something to warrent the attention of the city government.