Grants Pass may soon enforce ... a judge to expand the city’s enforcement zone beyond Riverside Park and Reinhart Volunteer Park — the only two parks currently off-limits to camping under ...

He said the city now has a chance to set an example for other communities in Oregon. “Grants Pass could be a model,” Stenson said, “either of what to do or what not to do.” An attorney for ...

The need for housing is not going away.” Mike Zacchino, the information coordinator for Grants Pass, said in an email that the city had no comment. Last June's Supreme Court ruling made the ...

Top stories include: Tuesday's City Council special meeting ... county-owned building in downtown Grants Pass, which has housed the library since 1959. Final maps were released Tuesday by the ...

in the case of Grants Pass v. Johnson, upholding the small city’s ability to ban sleeping in public parks, on sidewalks or in vehicles and to impose fines and jail time to enforce its law.

Last month, Mayor Eric Adams announced that $48 million in grants, provided in part ... “So another purpose of this map is to help educate our partners in government, specifically at City Council, so ...

Emboldened by the Supreme Court decision, the city may ultimately be a road map ... city limits, particularly at a place called Devil’s Slide — a three-mile walk down the railroad tracks from J Street ...

Grants Pass’ previous ordinance made being in public while homeless punishable by civil and criminal penalties, despite homeless residents having no other option within the city limits. The new ...

GRANTS PASS, Ore– With the Grants Pass v. Johnson case behind the city, Grants Pass announced four locations in the city limits that the homeless population can camp at. With the Supreme Court case ...

CityViews are readers’ opinions, not those of City Limits. Add your voice today! Late last month, the U.S. The Supreme Court decided in Grants Pass v. Johnson that people without homes can be ...

In August 2023, Grants Pass petitioned the Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari, asking it to hear the case. Arguing that the 9th Circuit erred in its ruling, the city claimed that the Eighth ...

"It also allows the city to enforce the provisions of (the camping ban). The decision is actually that simple." Grants Pass v. Johnson, a case decided by the Supreme Court in June, found that the ...