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 ...
LOL! You go girls
So they dig a shallow hole and poop on the grass divider? Or even bother digging the hole?
Best economy
Ever
Ed
Yeah, that’s camping alright. Boots that cost over $100 bucks - those are surely womyn in dire straits.
Earl and Tammy Moody (Emily Joan Greene)
Father and daughter or husband wife?
Big cities are determined to run out residents, consumers and commerce, and turn them over to the homeless, druggies and panhandlers. Then they complain about lack of revenue to support their social services. Cities are becoming centers of failed social experimentation.
stakes are easier to carry than those bricks.
learn some knots ladies, you are a disgrace to that uniform.
teeman
pack 185
troop 185
Only if there aren't any available police cars parked nearby...
So who gets sued after the first mugging/rape on private property due to lack of security? Who gets to pay for security? (dumb question)
Wonder how far apart those Groups of 6 need to be?
Why churches? Why not elementary schools? They have these big ole spaces that can hold hundreds!
lol that’s perfect. I hope they continue and add to it. Camp in front of the mayor’s house. Camp in front of his neighbors house.
Know a couple who lived in Portland. They got tired of opening their garage door and having the “homeless”walk in to as for food or just to say “hi”. They moved to Vancouver.
Blame the neighbor's dog...
The cub scout shirt is a nice touch, though.
Where do they go to the bathroom??
Is that Emily Blunt?
They knock on the mayor’s door?
UFB......Hales is doing NOTHING to promote jobs, so this scourge doesn’t even need to happen....and instead is creating accommodation for jobless vulnerable people so that the Great Oregon Ponzi Tax Scheme can unimpededly steamroll the entire state.....Oregon is Whole Foods version of Bolshevism....very trendy and exclusive, doncha’ know.
I want to make handouts to give to the homeless stating gratitude for giving up their job so that the loser teachers don’t have to give up their full retirement benefits.....or something like that....my rant for the morning...
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