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a. Identify service gaps in full continuum of rapid rehousing services <br />b. Create a clear plan of how gaps will be addressed <br />10. The city manager will conduct a review of city policies, ordinances, zoning requirements and <br />codes to identify those which have the consequence of criminalizing those engaging in life <br />sustaining activities or create greater barriers to those seeking permanent housing or shelter. <br />This review will be conducted with input from all relevant departments and include community <br />members and stakeholders. Once identified, those city policies, ordinances, zoning requirements <br />and codes will be reviewed for potential revisions designed to mitigate the unintended effect <br />they have on people seeking to engage in life sustaining activities. Examples of Immediate <br />Changes (Quick Fixes) that could be addressed either by City Council Directly or by the City <br /> <br />a. Provide public bathrooms and/or portable restrooms that are available 24 hours/day in <br />the downtown core and surrounding neighborhoods; consider keeping public restrooms <br />in parks open 24 hours/day <br /> <br />b. Make the cleaning and maintenance of the required bathrooms part of community <br />service and/or jail inmate work programs <br />c. Change the number of legal car/tent camping spaces to reflect a range rather than an <br />absolute limit, e.g. three to six spaces per site, depending on the characteristics of the <br />site <br />d. Drop the requirement for permitting of street vendors, as there is no mechanisms that <br />actually allows such licensure to happen; alternately, re-instate a simple procedure for <br />street vendors to obtain licenses to conduct sidewalk vending (council might want to <br />conduct a study of other municipalities to determine whether sidewalk vending reduces <br />shopping in downtown stores and venues such as Saturday Market, or whether it in fact <br />creates a critical mass that brings more shoppers downtown) <br />e. Review the offenses that trigger exclusion in the downtown core, and drop the ones <br />; and/or direct the Chief of Police to direct his <br />officers to cease and desist requesting exclusion for violations for such things as writing <br />with side-walk chalk, resting on or against a planter or wall, sleeping on private property, <br />or illegal camping <br /> <br />f. Change zoning to allow the Mission to expand its capacity <br /> that is being formed as an <br />outgrowth of the Occupy Eugene Medical Program. <br /> <br />