For the large contingent of RV dwellers who fled Columbus Park before the summer’s large-scale encampment sweep and settled at VTA’s Almaden parking lot, another troubling deadline is looming.

They risk losing their homes if they do not leave within the next few days — marking the fourth makeshift site they’ve been forced to leave in over a month.

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The owners of 20 vehicles — 12 of who were offered and declined both interim housing and an offer from the city to buy back their RVs — have congregated at the South San Jose parking lot on Coleman Road for the past two weeks, sparking complaints from neighbors and leading San Jose Mayor Matt Mahan to admonish other elected officials and the transit agency for allowing the unsanctioned encampment without proper planning.

“We

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