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…