The declaration of emergency left little doubt what the City Council thought it was: "[We] have observed an extraordinary influx of undesirable and unsanitary visitors to the city, sometimes known as 'hippies,' and find that unless proper regulations are adopted immediately, the use and enjoyment of public property will be jeopardized, if not entirely eliminated." … The public parks and beaches are, in many cases, rendered unfit for normal public use by the unregulated and uncontrolled conduct of the new transients," the declaration said.

Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order a…, loc. 387