City of Tacoma votes to expand its camping ban

The Tacoma City Council voted to expand its camping ban within the city.

The vote from Oct. 21 moves to update Title 8 of the Municipal Code, “relating to camping and storage of personal belongings on public property.”

Tacoma’s current ban, “prohibited camping and the storage of personal belongings in a 10-block radius around temporary shelters, as well as Aspen Court (a City-permitted emergency and transitional housing facility), and all public property within 200 feet of Tacoma’s mapped rivers, waterways, creeks, streams, and shorelines,” a city spokesperson said…

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