EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The Occupy Eugene people living at a municipal park have asked the City Council to let them stay indefinitely, arguing that the encampment gives homeless people and street youth a safe, sober place to stay.
The Eugene Register-Guard (http://bit.ly/umr7Mm ) reports the council may be split, with two previous supporters hesitant to allow the encampment to be permanent.
The council has exempted the group from a ban on overnight camping. That ends Dec. 15. The council is scheduled to take up the matter three days before that.
The protest began in mid-October and was in other parks and property controlled by the University of Oregon before it settled in Washington-Jefferson Park on Nov. 5.
