When Susan took a deep dive into the 34 “parks” where the City of Victoria allows people to set up a tent or shelter between 7 pm and 7 am each night, she was stunned to find what so many of those highly unsuitable patches of grass being called parks actually looked like. An example: one of them is the triangle of grass at the Oak Bay junction bordered by Fort and Pandora streets, across from Freddie’s Market. Several more are those little strips of grass along Johnson Street as it splits into Pandora and Begbie. Only three of the 34 have washrooms. “A lot of them don’t have enough space for even one tent, and definitely not enough for two people so that a person could feel safer,” notes Susan, a volunteer with Westcoast Recovery Outreach who took her report on the “parks” to city council. People living homeless will also want to have a charged up phone, a data plan and Google Maps ready to go – the green spaces are listed on the city’s website, and many have no signage indicating people can shelter there. For the record, that little splot of grass at the Oak Bay Junction is Scurrah Green.