Willow Glen board supports San Jose sanctioned encampment plan

San Jose’s quest to move hundreds of homeless residents from the city’s waterways and into sanctioned encampment sites — including within neighborhood boundaries — is getting support from an unlikely group: the Willow Glen Neighborhood Association. 

But with a catch.

Despite local protests and petitions circulating, two-thirds of the association’s board has voted to support a managed site on the Valley Transportation Authority’s Lelong Street property — one of the three proposed locations in Willow Glen ...