Photo by Daniel J. Chacon
Here’s the schedule for the proposed no solicitation zone to fight panhandling downtown, according to a news release from the City Council:
Over the next two months, the “No Solicitation Zone” Ordinance schedule is as follows:
Monday, Sept. 10 – Informal City Council meeting. City Attorney to answer questions from Council and receive direction. Public is welcome; public comment not permitted.
Monday, Sept. 24 – Informal City Council meeting. City Attorney to present draft ordinance. Additional changes may be made to ordinance. Public is welcome; public comment not permitted.
Tuesday, Oct. 9 – Formal City Council meeting. First reading of ordinance. Public welcome; public comment permitted.
Tuesday, Oct. 23 – Formal City Council meeting. Possible second reading of ordinance. Public welcome; public comment permitted.
All meetings will begin at 1 p.m. and will be held in the Council Chambers located on the third floor of City Hall at 107 N. Nevada Avenue.
This schedule is tentative and could change based on Council direction or decision.
Ah, nothing says “Shameless Hypocrisy” like Colorado Springs:
Let’s have four -tax-payer funded- meetings, to SHOW THOSE POOR-PEOPLE!
(Eds. Note: Please pray that the “Council-Person-Gone-Wild” doesn’t unleash her “vocabulary” on the financially-challenged)
Excellent post Michael. Maybe they can use some of that facial recognition software to formulate a homeless registry. Gonna give them a ticket and a fine? Huh? They are begging for money as is! This is weak beyond belief. I am quite capable of saying “no” to panhandling or it should be my choice to give them a buck. “Threw the bums a dime in your prime, didn’t you” Colorado Springs, I used to know you.
@Guest: Thank-you, sir. TRUTH, be told: On May 24, 2008, -Memorial Day- near the corner of Tejon & Cascade, an individual driving a mid-size
truck with a small U.S. Marine Corps decal on the rear-view mirror, – was asked for a buck. Quickly, the man pulled-out a five-dollar-bill, which was IMMEDIATELY spent at The Coffee and Tea Zone:
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DOH! North Tejon & Pikes Peak….in front of the big bank.
The rest, is EPIC history.
Perhaps if we make overseas outsourcing illegal, people could get a job and we wouldn’t have so many panhandlers.
Executives who outsource American jobs should be thrown in jail.
Dear Mr Hansell: Outsourcing has nothing to do with it – people can, with some effort, get a job right now, but many choose to panhandle for cigarettes, booze and drugs, eat at Marion House everyday, and sleep it off under the bridge. Living on the dole is a choice; trying to blame the “big, bad, business” bogeyman is a joke.