Dear "downtown"; The world is not here for people to spend a lot of money. Maybe so, but the people who are trying to run a business in Santa Cruz are having their income reduced because shoppers don't want to come downtown and be harrassed to death by vagrants and the mentally ill. Don't try to rationalize this as being anti-poor. Poor people work and they also buy things. They do NOT spend their days sitting on the sidewalk panhandling. Bums do that. I don't care how much to try to distort the fact, vagrants produce nothing, bother people, and waste tax dollars in welfare and law enforcement. I don't care where they go, just get the fuck out. And, I have lived in SC all my life. Get a life or get out of mine.