City Council Special Meeting for Public Input

On Monday, April 29, 2024, at 5:30 p.m. the Florence City Council will hold a special meeting in person at the Florence Events Center (715 Quince Street). The purpose of this meeting is for the City Council to gather public input regarding the draft proposed City Code establishing time, place, and manner policies for event-based emergency shelters and temporary sheltering.

General areas of interest for the proposed City Code include the following:

1. Warming and Disaster Response Shelters
2. Private Property Sheltering-Zoning Districts and Places Allowed
3. Private Property Sheltering-Sanitation, Screening and Siting Requirements
4. Private Property Sheltering-Registration and Revocation
5. Public Property Sheltering-Buffers from daycares, churches, schools and homeless services
6. Public Property Sheltering-Exclusion from identified public facilities, parks, and rights-of-way and protected wetland and creek buffers
7. Definitions related to the proposed policies

For previous City Council meetings on this topic, visit the links below:

• December 4, 2023 City Council & Planning Commission Joint Work Session: www.ci.florence.or.us/council/city-council-planning-commission-work-session-housing-code-updates
• January 11, 2024 City Council Work Session: www.ci.florence.or.us/council/city-council-work-session-80
• March 21, 2024 City Council Work Session: www.ci.florence.or.us/council/city-council-work-session-84
• April 4, 2024 City Council Work Session: www.ci.florence.or.us/council/city-council-work-session-97
• April 11, 2024 City Council Work Session: www.ci.florence.or.us/council/city-council-work-session-85

If interested citizens are unable to attend in person, they may listen and view the meeting through the ‘GoToWebinar’ platform at this link: https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/4222207552837833824

Meetings are also shown live on Cable Channel 191 and online at www.ci.florence.or.us/citymanager/public-meetings-live.

Providing Public Input

The City Council will be accepting public input on the draft proposed City Code. The public input will be structured to address the various sections of the proposed code as outlined above in subjects one through seven. Those providing input will be asked to select one of those seven sections in order to organize the flow of the special meeting. That selection will need to be indicated on the speaker’s card and written comment when filled out.
Those wishing to provide public input to the City Council on the draft proposal may do so in the following ways:

1.Written Testimony              

Written public input can be submitted by:

• Electronically at this link: https://www.ci.florence.or.us/council/42924-city-council-special-meeting-public-input-written-comment 
• Email to the City Recorder at cityrecorder@ci.florence.or.us;
• Mail to Florence City Hall, Attn: City Council, 250 Hwy 101, Florence, OR 97439
• Drop Off at the City of Florence drop box located at Florence City Hall (250 Hwy 101) to the right of the main entrance.

** Note: Written comments received at least 2 hours prior to the meeting (April 29, 2024 at 3:30 p.m.), that concern the item on the agenda, or are designated as comments to be provided for the meeting, will be distributed to the City Council, posted to the City of Florence website, and made part of the record.

2.Verbal Testimony

Citizens may provide verbal public input comments at the special meeting on the agenda item in person or via the GotoWebinar platform. To do so, please complete a speaker’s card at least 1 hour prior to the start of the meeting (April 29, 2024 at 4:30 p.m.).

Speaker’s cards for this meeting are available online at www.ci.florence.or.us/council/city-council-special-meeting-public-input or at City Hall when the materials are posted.

For more information on the City of Florence’s Public Meeting Policies, visit the City of Florence website at https://www.ci.florence.or.us/council/rules-procedure. For details regarding the upcoming City Council meeting, please contact City Recorder Lindsey White at 541-997-3437 or via email at cityrecorder@ci.florence.or.us.