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Council weighs options to protect riverbanks as officers ramp up camp cleanups
Summary
Councilors raised environmental concerns about concentrated homeless camping along Roseburg riverbanks and discussed designating sensitive areas, enforcement limits under Oregon law and the need to identify alternative locations; police described increased citations and targeted cleanups.
Councilors spent the final portion of the meeting discussing concentrated homeless encampments along riverbanks and associated environmental damage.
Councilor Tom Micklec described extensive erosion, tree cutting and trash along riverbanks where campers have concentrated and asked whether the city could designate those areas as environmentally sensitive or require people to stay on…
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