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1 <br />2 <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />8 <br />9 <br />10 <br />it <br />12 <br />13 <br />1 <br />21 <br />ORDINANCE NO. 0-09-11 <br />AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE <br />CITY OF COLTON, CALIFORNIA, ADDING <br />CHAPTER 12.26 TO THE COLTON MUNICIPAL <br />CODE REGULATING CAMPING AND STORAGE OF <br />PERSONAL PROPERTY ON PUBLIC PROPERTY <br />WHEREAS, pursuant to California Penal Code section 647(c), the city has the <br />power to regulate conduct on a street, sidewalk, or other public place, or on or in a place <br />open to the public; <br />WHEREAS, local ordinances governing the use of municipal parks are specifically <br />authorized by California State law, including Public Resources Code section 5193; <br />WHEREAS, the City may make and enforce within its limits all local, police, <br />sanitary, and other ordinances and regulations not in conflict with general laws; <br />WHEREAS, Chapter 12.24 of the Colton Municipal Code ("CMC') generally <br />prohibits the use of a park, as defined therein, between the hours of ten p.m. and six a.m. the <br />following day, unless allowed as part of an authorized community activity in the park; <br />WHEREAS, Chapter 12.24 of the CMC thereby generally prohibits camping in <br />public parks; <br />WHEREAS, the City not only has the power to keep its public property open and <br />available for the purposes to which they are dedicated, it has a duty to do so; <br />WHEREAS, the City is concerned about problems related to inappropriate uses of <br />all public property, including camping and storage of personal property in or on all public <br />property and not just parks, and has experienced uses of public property which impact the <br />preservation of the public peace, health or safety; <br />WHEREAS, camping and/or storage of personal property on public property has a <br />tendency to increase litter and waste in such areas, making them appear disorderly and <br />unkempt, and impacting the public peace, health or safety; <br />WHEREAS, the City recognizes that when public property appears to be disorderly, <br />unkempt, or intimidating, people avoid those areas, thereby making them inviting areas for <br />crime and other public peace, health, or safety impacts; <br />WHEREAS, the City recognizes that, conversely, when public property appears <br />clean, orderly, welcoming and comfortable, the law-abiding public takes them as their own <br />and crime goes down, and the public peace, health and safety tend to be preserved; <br />23152.06304\7026419.2 <br />