The Riverside City Council overwhelmingly adopted an ordinance making homeless encampments along many parts of the Santa Ana River bottom illegal.
The new regulations passed on a 6-1 vote with Clarissa Cervantes being the lone council member to vote against the ordinance.
Police officers, firefighters code enforcement and other officials can take down any camps in the specified areas. The items confiscated during these sweeps will be placed in storage facilities and those affected by the new ordinance can receive resources including temporary shelter. According to the Riverside Fire Department, two-thirds of brush fires in the area were human-caused. The city attributed these fires to people"cooking, warming and debris fires in transient camps."
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