City council to look at adding urgency ordinance to define, address illegal riverbed camping
Riverbed camps in the Salinas Riverbed in Paso Robles in 2018.
–At their Oct. 6 meeting, the Paso Robles City Council will look at adding an urgency ordinance to the Municipal Code in regards to camping and camping-related terms and prohibit camping in the following areas: lands owned or operated by the city, lands zoned as open space, high fire risk areas, and water supply risk areas. This chapter of the code calls for the council to adopt procedures for the removal and retrieval of personal property.
With respect to enforcement, while it is the city’s current practice to comply with Martin v. City of Boise, this chapter codifies this practice. This means that, absent exigent circumstances, the camping prohibition will not be enforced against persons when there is no available alternative shelter. When the camping prohibition is not enforced, people may only set up camping facilities between 5 p.m. and 7 a.m. daily.
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The council will also continue their discussion regarding the Beechwood development project. To view that agenda item report, click here.
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