Dimensional standards
Servicing
- Geographic extent
- Citywide
Uses
Prohibited4
- camping on public property without permission
- encampment
- camping within 500 feet of day care centers, schools, playgrounds, or youth centers
- camping area over 100 square feet
Extracted standards
14 individual requirements pulled out of this section’s prose, each with the sentence it came from.
Other
- Blocking public access prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Block or otherwise impair or impede access of public employees or agents to any public facility.
- Blocking sidewalk/right-of-way prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Block, obstruct, or otherwise interfere with access to a public facility, sidewalk, and/or other public right-of-way.
- Camping area must be kept clean
Fail to keep any camping area clean and free of garbage, debris, waste, including without limitation, hazardous waste and/or human waste.
- Campfire restriction
Build or maintain any fire or campfire, with or without the use of propane, on public property except within a public park within a designated cooking or BBQ area during the hours the park is open to the public.
- Camping in waterways prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Placing any camp facilities or camp paraphernalia in waterways, including ravines, ponds, sloughs, and lakes.
- Camping on private property requires owner consent
It shall be unlawful and a violation of this chapter for any person to camp on private property without the consent of the owner of the private property.
Occupy any encampment.
- Exception for express permission
Notwithstanding the foregoing, it shall not be a violation of this section or this chapter for a person to camp on public or private property with the express permission of the owner of the property.
- Maximum camping area100 sqftsq ftSquare feet. An acre is 43,560 sq ft; a typical suburban lot is 7,000–10,000.
Occupy a camping area greater than one hundred square feet (100 ft²) measured from the center of the primary living area of the total camping area.
- Minimum distance from day careDay careSupervised care for children or adults during part of the day., school, playground, or youth center500 ft
Camp within 500 feet of the grounds of any day care center, school, playground, or youth center.
- Pets must be leashed or crated in camp
Possess any pet, including but not limited to dog(s), cat(s), or other domestic animal, in a camp, camping area or encampment that is not on a leash or in a crate or kennel.
- Public facility access protection
Break or damage any lock on any public facility in order to access the public facility, and/or to camp within a public facility.
- Securing paraphernalia to public property prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Secure any camping paraphernalia to a public facility or vegetation, including but not limited to trees and shrubs.
- Camping in unsafe structures prohibitedProhibitedNot allowed in the district at all, short of rezoning or a variance.
Camp in any structure or structures that an authorized city official finds is unsafe for human occupation.
From the ordinance
It shall be unlawful to camp within 500 feet of day care centers, schools, playgrounds, or youth centers; occupy a camping area greater than 100 sq ft; occupy an encampment; or camp on private property without owner consent.