AURORA | The issue of how and when the city ousts homeless people camping on public property is scheduled for debate Monday at an Aurora city council review session.
A proposed resolution wouldn’t change Aurora’s year-old campaign ban, allowing the city to force homeless campers off of city streets, medians and parks without notice, city homeless program officials said last month at a city council committee meeting. Instead, the proposal would direct city staff to oblige homeless campers with a 72-hour warning, unless the camp creates an imminent safety threat to the campers or the public.
Current law was created about a year ago to reflect a Supreme Court ruling, saying that cities and counties do not have to provide some kind of shelter to homeless people in order to evict them from public encampments…