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city constructing a homeless
camp at Trailhead Park.
“Th ey’re sadly mistaken
of what’s going on,” City
Manager Richard Mey-
ers said of the rumors.
“Nothing is set up and
we’re pursuing options
on how we’re going to
address the court ruling.
We have to do something
otherwise they can set up
camp and there’s nothing
we can do about it.”
Th e ruling was hand-
ed down on Sept. 4 aft er
two individuals in Ida-
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Th e same premise, Mey-
ers, said, would work for any
solution the city institutes.
People could sleep in
the parks until they
closed and would
then have to move
to a location set up
by the city — taking
their tents and oth-
er belongings with
them.
“Th e benefi t is that
we
keep them mov-
—Richard Meyers, City Manager
ing,” Meyers said.
“Th ey’re not setting
up camp with ex-
tra propane tanks
and stuff , it’s staying
to go, receiving a citation lacks an alternative location clean and if it doesn’t then
we can cite them for litter-
from the city was cruel and for the individual to go.
And while there is no plan ing.”
unusual punishment — a
Th e yet-to-be-determined
constitutional violation. Ac- to set up a homeless camp at
cording to the ruling, cita- Trailhead Park, according to location would not rise to
tions can still be distributed Meyers, the city is looking the level of camps in Eu-
if the city has an alternative at its options and actively gene. According to Meyers,
it wouldn’t even qualify as a
location for individuals to working on an alternative.
“It’s kind of how we’re al- rest stop.
sleep, such as a shelter.
“We want it in a location
Cottage Grove does not ready doing it with the RVs,”
have a shelter within city he said. “We have about eight where we won’t be creating
limits. Under the new court RV homeless people, they’re easy cover for nefarious ac-
ruling, individuals are per- not homeless because their tivities,” he said. “We want
mitted to sleep on public homes are on wheels but it somewhere we can watch
property, despite existing they’re parking in our lots them and see what’s going
city ordinances that set rules at the parks or streets. Th ey on because, sorry — the
can park there until the park court doesn’t say you get to
to the contrary.
“We’re trying to protect closes at 10 and then they go do this and do whatever
our parks,” Meyers said. have to go somewhere. So, you want.”
No decision has been
Currently, parks within the what’s happening is around
city close at 10 p.m. and all 9:30 they move out onto the made about what a location
residents are barred from street and stay there for a would look like or where
entering them. However, the day, move to a park or move it would be situated. Ac-
ruling from the Ninth Cir- to another location and as cording to Meyers, the city
planned to meet with sev-
eral community stakehold-
ers to discuss the available
options.
“Th at’s the key,” he said.
“We want to get them to
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ho challenged existing city
ordinances that prohibited
sleeping overnight in city
parks. Th eir argument not-
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ter 10 p.m. because the city
“The benefi t is that we keep them
moving. They’re not setting up camp
with extra propane tanks and stuff ,
it’s staying clean and if it doesn’t then
we can cite them for littering.”
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