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<br />ECC <br />UGENE ITY OUNCIL <br />AIS <br />GENDA TEM UMMARY <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Public Hearing: An Ordinance Continuing to Allow Tent Camping at Vehicle <br />Campsites by Amending Section 5 of Ordinance 20484 to Extend the Sunset <br />Date to December 31, 2014 <br /> <br />Meeting Date: November 19, 2012 Agenda Item Number: 4 <br />Department: Planning and Development Staff Contact: Michael Wisth <br />www.eugene-or.gov Contact Telephone Number: 541-682-5540 <br /> <br /> <br />ISSUE STATEMENT <br />This public hearing is to consider an amendment to Section 5 of Ordinance 20484. Section 4.816 <br />of the Eugene Code, 1971 (EC) allows people to sleep overnight in a vehicle, camper or trailer in a <br />parking lot of a religious institution, place of worship, business or public entity that owns or leases <br />property on which a parking lot and occupied structure are located, with permission of the <br />property owner. <br /> <br />Ordinance 20484, which amended EC 4.816 to define tents as vehicles for the purpose of legal car <br />camping is set to sunset on December 31, 2012. The council may choose to allow the amendment <br />to sunset or extend the sunset date of Ordinance 20484. <br /> <br /> <br />BACKGROUND <br />EC 4.816 provides for the regulation of overnight sleeping. EC 4.816(1)(a) and (c) contain <br />provisions for overnight sleeping in a vehicle, camper or trailer under certain circumstances and <br />in certain areas. <br /> <br />On December 20, 2011, Ordinance 20484 was adopted granting a temporary exception to the <br />provisions contained in EC 4.816(1)(a) and (c) concerning overnight sleeping, thus allowing <br />overnight sleeping in a tent where overnight sleeping would be allowed in a vehicle. Without <br />council action, Ordinance 20484 would have sunset on April 15, 2012. <br /> <br />On March 12, 2012, the council adopted Ordinance 20490, extending the April 15, 2012, sunset <br />date to December 31, 2012. As amended, without council action, Ordinance 20484 will sunset on <br />December 31, 2012. <br /> <br /> <br />RELATED CITY POLICIES <br />Eugene City Code provisions related to overnight camping (Eugene Code Chapter 4). <br />S:\CMO\2012 Council Agendas\M121119\S1211194.doc <br /> <br />