Why it matters
The city brought up the ordinance for consideration after receiving complaints from residents about people staying around private property, including abandoned buildings, without permission, including “full-blown camps” with couches and beds, Mayor Nick Long said.
“We’ve been working on it for the better part of eight months, and the problem has gotten worse,” Long said at the meeting.
Long said complaints about the camps of homeless people was the No. 1 thing he gets calls about from residents.