City bans skateboards and dogs, weighs expanding law
■ ORDINANCE: Eugene City Council
moves to break up drug dealing and
loitering with new legislation
By Doug Irving
Community Reporter
Man’s best friend is no longer welcome on
several blocks of the West University area.
Neither are skateboarders.
The Eugene City Council enacted a dog
and skateboard ban during the summer that
covers 13th Avenue between Kincaid and
Ferry Streets and Alder Street between 12th
and 14 th Avenues.
The ban’s goal is “to make the area less
comfortable to persons who were disrupting
people,” said Rosie Pryor, the community re
lations manager for the city of Eugene.
The ordinance will come up for review in
March, Pryor said, although it could be
amended as early as next week. The council
will consider extending the ban to a larger
area at their meeting on Oct. 9.
“The further out you get, the more dissipa
tion [of problems] you’re going to get,” said
Lt. Becky Hanson, the East sector comman
der for the Eugene police department.
Dog owners and skateboarders could re
ceive a $50 ticket for walking their dog or rid
ing their skateboards in the banned area.
However, police and seeing-eye dogs are ex
empt, and residents of the affected blocks
who own dogs are allowed to walk their dogs
there if they can prove they live in the area.
The region covered by the ban experiences
the heaviest pedestrian traffic in Eugene,
Hanson said. She estimated that 30,000 peo
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Some people who had dogs, and some
people who had skateboards, were
dealing drugs. Now that the ban is in
effect, we 've noticed a very noticeable
decline in criminal activity within the
ban area.
— Bev Manson
community service officer
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pie walk through the area every day.
Because of this, the council felt that dogs
and skateboards should be moved to an area
with less traffic, said Bev Mason, a commu
nity service officer. The idea was to move
things that could hurt people away from peo
ple.
Hanson said the drug trade, in addition to
loitering, littering and other criminal con
cerns, also played a part in the decision to
enact the ban.
“Some people who had dogs, and some
people who had skateboards, were dealing
drugs,” she said. "Now that the ban is in ef
fect, we’ve noticed a very noticeable decline
in criminal activity within the ban area. ”
The Eugene police department recently in
creased the number of street sweeps for drugs
in the neighborhood just west of the ban,
Hanson said. This was to counter the sudden
influx of people from the ban area, she ex
plained.
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JOSEPH BUNIK/Emerakj
Though their numbers on the streets closest to campus have declined, dogs and skate
boards are both still common on other portions of 13th Avenue.
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