The measure prohibits campsites within a half-mile of a shelter and limits campsites to no more than 25 tents.
Anchorage city workers posted signs near Mountain View’s snow dump in 2023 warning campers they’d be back to clear the encampment. Assembly member Felix Rivera, which prohibits campsites within a half-mile of a shelter and limits campsites to no more than 25 tents. It also reduces the amount of notice officials need to give to clear camps — a process called abatement — from 15 to 10 days.
Assembly members debated the ordinance until close to midnight. Several expressed concerns over whether the changes would make a sizable dent in addressing homelessness, and some doubted if the mayor’s administration had a solid plan for abatement. Ultimately, the ordinance was passed by a 9 to 1 vote. Assembly Chair Chris Constant was the sole no vote. He says he doesn’t think the new limits will do anything to help homeless people and residents living near large encampments.
“We do everything as a city and a society, it’s a bigger issue than Anchorage, to protect the comfortable and inflict the suffering,” Constant said. “That’s what this does more of, I think. And so I wish we could figure out how to reverse the curve and protect the weak. But this doesn’t do it.” The Assembly also voted to continue the expanded capacity of 200 people at its homeless shelter at the former Solid Waste Services building until mid-October.
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