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Residents urge tougher enforcement on encampments and call for sidewalk repairs
Summary
During general public comment, speakers urged the council to enforce the city's camping and shopping‑cart ordinances, create a dedicated public‑space response team, publish monthly cleanup data and repair hazardous sidewalks.
Several residents used the council's public comment period on Sept. 16 to urge stricter enforcement of camping and shopping‑cart ordinances and to press the city to address deteriorating sidewalks.
One speaker (identified in the meeting record as a resident speaking during general public comment) said parks and sidewalks are degrading from encampments, dumped trash and abandoned shopping carts and…
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