Tag: Urban Camping Ban
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Aurora City Council approves policy on storing personal items from abated camps
Aurora City Council unanimously approved a policy on the storage of personal property from abated urban camps on Monday night, bringing the new urban camping ban one step closer to being implemented. Personal documents and identification found while abating an unauthorized camp will be stored at the Aurora Day Resource Center for one year. The…
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Aurora staff: Homeless camping ban won’t be enforced until city adopts storage policy
While Aurora’s camping ban is now technically in effect, the city can’t enforce it until it adopts a policy for storing personal items, a provision outlined in an amendment to the original ordinance. City staffers are also looking at renovations to the Aurora Day Resource Center to provide additional shelter, which they identified as a…
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Aurora camping ban will take effect by end of April
Aurora City Council passed on final reading the urban camping ban sponsored by Mayor Mike Coffman in a 6-5 vote, with Coffman breaking council’s tie vote. This means the ban will take effect by the end of April. The ban will prohibit all urban camping on private and public property within Aurora. It also requires…
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Aurora mayor to reintroduce proposed homeless camping ban
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save With the newly right-leaning Aurora City Council on his side, Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman is planning to reintroduce his failed camping ban to the council next month. The ban would prohibit all urban camping on private and public property within Aurora. The ban would also…
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Republican-backed initiatives shot down by Denver voters
The Denver Republican Party suffered major losses Tuesday with all three party-backed city initiatives failing at the ballot, according to unofficial results from the Secretary of State’s Office. The initiatives — 303, 304 and 2F — would have required the city to enforce its urban camping ban more aggressively, lowered the cap on Denver’s aggregate sales…
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Denver city attorney sues to remove 72-hour enforcement of camping ban from ballot initiative
The Denver City Attorney’s Office filed a lawsuit Friday in an effort to edit Initiative 303 on the November ballot, removing its deadline for the city to enforce its urban camping ban. If passed by voters, Initiative 303 would require the city to take action against reported illegal camps within 72 hours and allow citizens…
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Aurora City Council shoots down mayor’s homeless camping ban
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The Aurora City Council narrowly voted down Mayor Mike Coffman’s proposed homeless camping ban Monday night, with the ordinance failing with a 5-5 tie. Council members Alison Coombs, Allison Hiltz, Angela Lawson, Juan Marcano and Crystal Murillo voted no, and Francoise Bergan, Marsha Berzins, Curtis…
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Aurora mayor to propose camping ban to address homelessness in city
Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman announced Monday that he plans to introduce an ordinance to the City Council this week that would ban camping within the city. The ordinance, to be introduced Thursday, would attempt to address the city’s growing homeless population, similar to Denver’s urban camping ban passed in 2012. Coffman said the ordinance is…