Victoria city staff are proposing placing a limit on how long people can stay in city parks.
A new proposal by city staff would set a time limit for how long people can stay in a park, and homeless people should be prohibited from lingering in the same tenting spot after they have packed up their belongings.
The current parks bylaw does not include a limit on how long a person or groups of people can occupy the same location in a park.
The new proposal would set a six-hour limit within a 24-hour period, except for people who are sheltering in the park. They would be required to move to another location at least 100 metres away at the end of a 12-hour sheltering period.
Mayor Lisa Helps said she supports the proposal because it will help protect city parks' natural ecosystems.
Victoria Parks have come under pressure since the B.C. Supreme Court ruling which deemed it unconstitutional to deny a person the right to erect shelter in the absence of available shelter beds.
The proposal will be looked at this Thursday's council meeting.