I’ve received reader feedback via e-mail about the post I did yesterday, asking everyone to support the proposed ordinances restricting panhandling and the sale of single-serve beer Downtown. Many of you told me you e-mailed Council members, and I appreciate that. Thank you.<\/p>\n
I am still hearing some concerns that enacting these ordinances will disperse aggressive panhandlers, and their related behaviors such as open container violations and disorderly conduct, to other parts of town. I asked Larry Bloom, the CCC safety director, about these concerns.<\/p>\n
Larry replied that similar ordinances are in place in Seattle\/Tacoma. It was found there that for such a dispersion to surrounding neighborhoods to happen, three factors all have to be present in those surrounding areas:<\/p>\n
1) Green spaces, like parks<\/p>\n
2) High concentrations of people<\/p>\n
3) Availability of alcohol<\/p>\n
Without all three of these, dispersion of panhandlers and their troublemaking behaviors has been found to be minimal.<\/p>\n
None of the areas bordering on the no-panhandling, no-single-beer zones have all three of these factors – in particular, high concentrations of people. As one of my readers who e-mailed pointed out, panhandlers would have so few opportunities in the surrounding areas, due to lack of foot traffic, that they’d probably be better off panhandling at a mall.<\/p>\n
Once again, if you support these ordinances I strongly encourage you to call or e-mail City Council members and let them know.\u00a0 The South Main Association has collected all the members’ e-mail addresses onto one page here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’ve received reader feedback via e-mail about the post I did yesterday, asking everyone to support the proposed ordinances restricting panhandling and the sale of single-serve beer Downtown. Many of you told me you e-mailed Council members, and I appreciate that. Thank you. I am still hearing some concerns that enacting these ordinances will disperse … Continue reading “Would the proposed panhandling and single beer restrictions disperse aggressive panhandlers and troublemakers to other neighborhoods?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5898"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5900,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5898\/revisions\/5900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paulryburn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}