Tucson City Council will be voting tonight on the possible adoption or amendment of several city ordinances revolving around Tucson’s homeless population.
– The first is the proposed amendment which would prohibit people from occupying traffic medians on streets where the speed limits are 30 miles-per-hour or higher, for any reason other than crossing the street legally, according to a city communication attached to Tuesday night’s Council Meeting agenda.
The original codes, adopted in 2000, prohibited people from occupying medians to “solicit employment, contributions, donations or sales of any kind from the occupant of a vehicle,” the memo said. It was adopted to regulate the sale of newspapers from medians. But subsequent federal court rulings made the codes unenforceable…