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Public comments press council to change tent‑camping rules; council schedules work study on time/place/manner and resolution review
Summary
Public commenters and local businesses urged Roseburg City Council to revise its tent‑camping resolution and to adopt clearer standards for organized, managed camps. Council members agreed to pursue a work study and asked staff and the homeless commission to evaluate proposed changes.
Multiple residents and business owners used the public‑comment period to press the Roseburg City Council for changes to the city’s tent‑camping policies and to urge faster, more consistent enforcement of prohibited camping in environmentally sensitive or high‑impact areas.
Bernie Woodard, who said he runs several managed camps, asked the council to amend the city’s tent‑camping resolution to allow mail delivery at camp locations, permit more stable shelter options (for example, small yurts or platform systems rather than just fabric tents), increase allowable site duration from 29 days to 90 days in some circumstances, clarify the prohibition on open flames to allow factory‑manufactured, marshal‑approved cooking devices, and to base tent counts on available square footage rather than a hard cap of 10 tents. “We need to create opportunities so…
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