The Everett City Council will vote Wednesday evening on a controversial homeless ordinance that would ban sitting or lying within a 10-block area of the city.
Council Bill 2102-06 would prevent people from sitting, lying down and placing furniture such as sleeping bags, blankets and mattresses in public sidewalks and right of way in a designated radius around the Interstate 5 overpass on Smith Avenue, an area where council members say there has been an increase in crime.
However, City Attorney David Hall emphasized that the ordinance was not meant to criminalize homelessness but to address the concentration of unhoused individuals within the small area which is impacting businesses in
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