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Attachment A ORDINANCE NO. __________ AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING PERMITTED OVERNIGHT SLEEPING AND TEMPORARILY AMENDING SECTION 4.816 OF THE EUGENE CODE, 1971; AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 20503 REGARDING CONESTOGA HUTS; AND PROVIDING A SUNSET DATE. The City Council of the City of Eugene finds as follows: A. Section 4.816 of the Eugene Code, 1971 (EC) provides for the regulation of overnight sleeping. B. In order to create additional sleeping options for homeless persons, EC 4.816 should be temporarily amended to expand the permitted overnight sleeping provisions as a pilot program until November 1, 2013. The temporary amendment will allow the City to monitor these changes to determine whether they should be made permanent, revised or abandoned. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY OF EUGENE DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The findings set forth above are adopted. Section 2. Subsection (1) of EC 4.816 is amended to provide as follows: 4.816 Permitted Overnight Sleeping . (1) Notwithstanding any other provision of this code: (a) Persons may sleep overnight in a vehicle[, camper or trailer] in a parking lot of a religious institution, place of worship, business or public entity that owns or leases property on which a parking lot and occupied structure are located, with permission of the property owner. The property owner may not grant permission for more than [three] six vehicles used for sleeping at any one time. For purposes of this subsection (1), the udes a car, tent, camper, trailer, and Conestoga hut. [Comment: Each site is currently limited to 3 vehicles. The first proposed change would double the number of vehicles/tents/huts that could be located at each site. Comment: The second proposed change would allow tents and Conestoga huts to continue until the ordinance sunsets.] Attachment A Ordinance - Page 1 of 4