4.20.035 Vehicles.
A. BC Chapter 6.20 governs where and for how long individuals may legally park vehicles on public rights-of-way within the City of Bend. Those standards are applicable to all individuals, including those who use vehicles for shelter and/or sleeping on public rights-of-way in the City.
B. Individuals may use vehicles for shelter and/or sleeping on public rights-of-way under the following circumstances:
1. The vehicle is legally parked in compliance with the Bend City Code and any applicable policies.
2. Open flames, recreational fires, burning of garbage, bonfires, or other fires, flames, and/or heating deemed unsafe by Bend Fire and Rescue are prohibited in, on, or around vehicles. Types of cooking stoves and other devices for keeping warm are permitted, as allowed by adopted City policies.
3. Dumping of gray water (i.e., wastewater from baths, sinks, and the like) or black water (i.e., sewage) into any facilities or places not intended for gray water or black water disposal is prohibited. This includes but is not limited to storm drains, which are not intended for disposal of gray water or black water.
4. Storage of material outside vehicles is prohibited, other than what is incidental to activities such as short-term loading or unloading a vehicle.
5. Vehicles must be operational, i.e., capable of being started and driven under their own power, or ready to be towed if designed to be towed and may not be discarded or left inoperable in public rights-of-way or on City property.
6. No building or erecting of any structures connecting or attaching to vehicles is permitted, including tents that are not designed and manufactured to be attached to a vehicle.
7. Persons may not accumulate, discard or leave behind garbage, debris, unsanitary or hazardous materials, or other items of no apparent utility in public rights-of-way, on City property, or on any adjacent public or private property.
8. Use of emergency power generators that result in a violation of BC 5.50.020(A) is prohibited.
9. All animals must be leashed or crated at all times.
C. Notwithstanding BC Chapter 6.20 or any other applicable rules or policies governing parking on public rights-of-way, under no circumstances may anyone use a vehicle for shelter and/or sleeping:
1. Within 500 feet of any safe parking site or shelter approved under the Bend Development Code and/or any applicable provision of State law.
2. Within 1,000 feet of the City’s emergency shelter at 275 NE 2nd Street, but bound by the geographic barriers of the US-97/Parkway to the west and 3rd Street to the east, generally described as follows:
a. NE 2nd Street between NE Burnside Ave and NE Franklin Ave;
b. NE Emerson Ave from its western terminus east of US-97/Parkway to NE 3rd Street;
c. NE Dekalb Ave from its western terminus east of US-97/Parkway to NE 3rd Street;
d. NE Burnside Ave from NE 2nd Street to NE 3rd Street;
e. SE Scott Street from the US-97/Parkway overpass to SE 3rd Street; and
f. SE Aune Street from the US-97/Parkway overpass to SE Scott Street.
3. In any City parking lots or parking structures.
D. Enforcement of violations of this section will be in accordance with applicable State law and City ordinances and policies, including laws, ordinances, and policies governing towing and impounding of vehicles. [Ord. NS-2458, 2022]