According to the mayor's office the obstruction as nuisance, otherwise known as the downtown sit/lie ordinance is set to be extended by six-months. It is due to sun set on June 15, after an 18-month pilot process. A vote for the extension will come before the council on May 24th.
The downtown ordinance has served few functions over the last 18 months, with only 19 tickets being handed out - eight of which were out of downtown leading to all of them being thrown out of court. Of the 11 remaining, one was found not guilty, and the rest did community service, or served time due to other factors.
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Let's face it - nobody is going to care if I dress in clean clothes and sit down on the sidewalk reading the paper and eating lunch. The sit-lie ordinance is used to get icky homeless people and teenagers to "move along".
I will forward this information to the NWCRC and see what they want to do with it - they have discussed sit-lie with organizations such as Sisters of the Road in the past.