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and Hilyard Street, were excluded from the ordinance. She agreed with Mr. Kelly that if an activity was not legal downtown, it should not be legal anywhere. Regarding the element of the ordinance related to limiting the audience listening to a street musician to 25 people, she asked if the street musician was to tell the 26th person to ~go away." Ms. Taylor asked if dogs could come downtown. Sgt. Tilby said yes. Speaking to the issue Mr. Pap6 raised regarding sleeping in the parks, Ms. Bettman said she did not see how the City could continue to move around homeless people who were sleeping in the City's parks. She thought the only humane solution was to create a sanitary and accessible park for single adults without a place to live or having a vehicle in which to camp. She recalled that the Council Committee on Homelessness and Youth had discussed such a camp but members refused to continue to meet on the subject. She did not know the status of the issue but did not think it would go away, and she hoped the council was willing to consider such a solution. Speaking to the remarks of Mr. Kelly and Ms. Taylor, Mr. Meisner said that he believed that it was reasonable to have special regulations for the downtown area. He said he was not suggesting he did not want to regulate news racks in downtown, but he was merely pointing out there were problems in enforce- ment now that he hoped could be addressed in all areas, not just this area. Mr. Meisner asked if the news racks near the Zenon Caf6 or the Library would be acceptable under the provisions of the ordinance. Mr. Pap6 determined from City Manager Taylor that the public hearing on the item was scheduled for October 27 with action scheduled for November 10, and questioned whether the council should consider a citywide ordinance addressing some of the issues under consideration. He said he agreed with Mr. Meisner that there were some circumstances related to the downtown that should be regulated in that area alone. Mr. Taylor did not think that the issues of regulating downtown and regulating outside downtown were mutually exclusive. He suggested that the council could use the input it received at the public hearing to identify those regulations that were appropriate for the downtown and those that were appropriate outside the downtown as well. He said that staff's focus was currently on controlling the predacious behavior of adults on youth and criminal activities committed by both youth and adults. Mr. Pap~ expressed concern about activities occurring in his ward, for example, undesirable activities occurring over the weekend on top of Gillespie Butte, and reiterated his interest in extending the regulations to a broader area. Mr. Kelly was not opposed to moving the ordinance forward at this time if the council was satisfied with the responses it received to its questions, but he did not want to see the broader issues forgotten. He asked that a discussion be scheduled soon. Mr. Kelly noted a recommended prohibition on displays in the activity areas, and expressed concern that the definition of ~displays" was very broad. He said it did not appear that the ordinance would allow, for example, a restaurant to post its lunch specials. Mr. Kelly suggested that if the object was to avoid a proliferation of displays, staff should consider the issue of scale. Mr. Kelly also requested clarification about the impact of the ordinance on protests and rallies. He pointed MINUTES--Eugene City Council October 13, 2003 Page 7 Work Session