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Committee reopens sit-and-lie amendment; councilmembers debate enforceability and overlap with pedestrian-interference law
Summary
Councilmember Bingle presented an amended sit-and-lie ordinance that would remove shelter-bed and housing-status references and expand the prohibition citywide. Members debated enforcement overlap with pedestrian-interference provisions and noted ongoing legal challenges to related ordinances.
Councilmember Bingle introduced a proposed amendment to the city’s sit-and-lie ordinance that would expand the prohibition citywide, remove time-of-day provisions and eliminate references to housing status and shelter-bed availability.
Bingle told the Public Safety and Community Health Committee the change is intended to make the law generally applicable and to remove implementation barriers officers have cited. “This removes a lot of those restrictions,” Bingle said, framing the…
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