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2nd Street Homeless Camp Determined "Unsafe"

The homeless camp area on 2nd Street has been deemed an “unsafe campsite” by the Bend Police Department. Numerous community complaints initiated a review and on Monday, Chief Mike Krantz submitted the conclusion report to City Manager Eric King. Tents line and spill into the street and block sidewalks in the area, not too far from Emerson Avenue, where the city cleared out another homeless camp deemed unsafe last summer. The reports states as of last week there were 25 structures erected in the right of ways and “clearly block access to public rights-of-ways, including sidewalks.” More than 250 police calls to that area over the last 90 days, which the report says is “not typical for other similarly measured geographic areas within the City of Bend.” The city manager is reviewing the assessment.  If he declares the area "unsafe," the city will take steps to clear the camp and evict its tenants.

 

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