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Council rejects motion to schedule public hearing on ‘unlawful transfer’ right-of-way ordinance
Summary
A City Council motion to direct the city manager to schedule a public hearing on an ordinance that would ban passing goods or money to people from vehicles in travel lanes failed after councilors debated constitutional concerns and traffic-safety evidence.
A motion to direct the city manager to schedule a public hearing on an ordinance prohibiting the passing of goods or money from vehicles in travel lanes failed at the April 28 Eugene City Council meeting, with the vote counted at 3 in favor and 5 opposed.
Councilor Clark moved the procedural motion to send the ordinance to a public hearing. Councilor Clark said the public hearing would be the “next logical step before we have a final discussion about it” and that taking the hearing first would save a later work session.
The debate centered on whether the ordinance — described by some councilors as aimed at unsafe conduct in travel lanes and by others as a repackaged anti‑panhandling law — is a proper use of council time and whether it would survive constitutional…
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