The ordinance would add a 50-person size limit on encampments and ban camping altogether in some areas. It also would ensconce in city code a criminal misdemeanor charge for prohibited camping violations.
Camps erected on Karluk Street near the Brother Francis Shelter in July 2023 in downtown Anchorage. a set of changes to city code to add new limits on homeless camping and give the city more power to tear down some encampments, even when no shelter is available.
Current city code already allows the city to, without prior notice, quickly tear down camps “where exigent circumstances posing a serious risk to human life and safety exist.” Bronson’s proposed ordinance would expand that. The city could rapidly tear down:• Any camp within 100 feet of parks “designated for a particular purpose.” Those include, but are not limited to,• Camps within 100 feet of a private residential property.
The Bronson administration’s proposal comes after two consecutive summers with several hundred homeless residents living outside unsheltered, camping in parks and green spaces and sleeping on streets. “We need to come in and demand some accountability, compassionately, of these people that we need to not be living on our streets, and in our parks, and on our trails,” Bronson said.“We’re exploring all these avenues on how to push up against Martin v. Boise,” Bronson said, referring to one of the two civil rights rulings by the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which have broadly protected homeless residents’ right to sleep on public property when there isn’t space in homeless shelters.
The Anchorage Coalition to End Homelessness supports some pieces of the proposal, including the size limit for camps, and supports creating safe parking areas for people living in vehicles, said its executive director, Meg Zaletel.
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