“The equity impact process and values? “We did not have community engagement the way we normally would,” he said. He said that discussions would continue as the housing centers opened and issues arose. He said county officials had to find a place to house people who may have been exposed to the coronavirus but had no place to go to avoid infecting other people. A court commissioner denied the city’s request last week for a temporary restraining order stopping the former Econo Lodge site from reopening as an isolation center, but an appeal was scheduled for next week in King County Superior Court.

Source: New York Times March 14, 2020 00:01 UTC