Posted on 03/01/2016 5:23:43 AM PST by SJackson
Welcome to Camp Charlie!
Perhaps you fluffed up your sleeping bag and started evaluating potential campsites the moment you heard Mayor Charlie Hales is authorizing sleeping on sidewalks across Portland.
Now you can legally bed down on the tree-lined avenues of Laurelhurst, in view of the breathtaking sunset panoramas of Arlington Heights, and along the continental boulevards of Eastmoreland.
Of course, you didn't make such plans. Neither did the thousands of people with no choice but to sleep on the streets tonight.
But the mayor's new rules are no joke, either. They legalize urban camping to a degree rarely seen in major American cities.
Until now, sleeping outdoors in Portland meant getting rousted from a park or shooed out from under a highway overpass.
Not anymore.
Last week, the mayor's office announced new rules that permit limited camping in Portland. Sleeping bags and tarps will be allowed on sidewalks between the hours of 9 pm and 7 am. You'll be allowed to pitch your tent on some city properties during those hours. (Maximum occupancy: Six people in any given spot.)
Park camping? That's still against the rules—but those are rules the parks commissioner, Amanda Fritz, has not always enforced.
The mayor's office also hopes to open 10 new homeless camps, allow car camping in church parking lots, and buy disaster pods for people to sleep inside.
(Excerpt) Read more at wweek.com ...
maybe both
lawn sprinklers I hope
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