SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Sacramento's yearslong struggle to open sites for homeless people living in vehicles will likely continue after the federal government dismissed the city's latest idea as "reprehensible" and "dystopian."

The sharp rebuke could halt the city's plans to open a safe parking site at the Franklin Light Rail Station in south Sacramento. The proposal, unveiled earlier this summer, remained in its early stages but is dependent on approval from the Federal Transit Administration.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Department of Transportation, which oversees the FTA, blasted Gov. Gavin Newsom and said, in a statement to The Sacramento Bee, that it would not approve "this ridiculous request."

"Instead of addressing the high cost of living, Newsom's solution is to designate commuter

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