The City has the ability to prohibit camping at certain public properties, which currently include all City owned open space properties as well as Albert Park, Boyd Park, the Falkirk Cultural Center, City parking garages, and a portion of Lindaro Street.
Through on-going camp site inspections, the City also regularly enforces and abates illegally constructed structures in the public right of way and in City parks. To date, the City has successfully abated forty of these structures, resulting in the removal of over thirty tons of material from encampments in the last few months. The City recently noticed nine newly constructed structures along Anderson Drive that must be dismantled by July 31st. If the structures are not removed and replaced with a tent only, the City will seek an order to abate the structure via an administrative hearing scheduled for August 20th, which are being conducted by retired Superior Court judge Beverly Wood. This is a standard administrative process required under the City’s Municipal Code.