May 23, 2023 4:00 p.m. 

Updated camping regulations inside the City of Roseburg will take effect Saturday July 1st, after the Roseburg City Council approved municipal code changes at its meeting Monday night.

A City release said the council agreed to what are known as time, place and manner regulations for camping in public spaces to ensure prohibited camping regulations are “objectively reasonable”, as defined by Oregon House Bill 3115.

Camping will be prohibited:

*On any City property during daylight hours

*In or adjacent to residential areas

*Within two hundred feet of schools, daycare facilities, playgrounds, sports complexes or adjacent structures such as parking lots

*Within ten feet of multiuse paths or one hundred feet of a waterway’s high-water mark

*Between the Umpqua River Path and South Umpqua River east of Southeast Flint Street

*In certain areas such as the Stewart Park Natural Area also known as the Duck Pond

*Adjacent to any City-owned buildings or City-owned buildings leased to others

*Airport property

*Near water reservoirs

*Within two hundred feet of a park area being used with a park permit

*Downtown parking garage and adjacent areas

*Any public property not owned, leased or managed by the City

Fire officials may prohibit any locations with elevated fire threats at a certain time of the year.

Camping will not be prohibited from 8:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. from April 1st through September 30th, from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. in March and October and from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 a.m. from November through the end of February.

There are other regulations and information linked: https://www.cityofroseburg.org/news