Portland already prohibits camping on city property at all hours. to carry their homes on their backs for 12 hours a day, seven days a week, will heighten mental and physical distress, hitting houseless and front-line workers like a punch to the gut,” testified Sandra Comstock, executive director of the Portland-based homeless nonprofit Hygiene4All.īusiness and property owners were among those who testified in support of the ordinance, saying some customers and employees don't feel safe shopping or going to work because of encampments.Ĭouncilmembers are expected to vote next week, according to Wheeler's office. The meeting was expected to stretch for hours into the night with more than 170 people signed up to testify. At times, advocates inside the City Council chambers cheered those speaking against the measure and jeered people supporting it, including Wheeler, prompting him to threaten to move the meeting online if decorum was not respected. represent nothing short of a humanitarian catastrophe,” Wheeler said.īefore testimony got under way, dozens of protesters rallied with megaphones outside City Hall to voice their opposition. “There are currently hundreds of unsanctioned, sometimes dangerous and often squalid homeless camps across all 146 square miles of the city of Portland. The City Council voted in November to create at least six large, designated campsites where homeless people will be allowed to camp and gradually ban street camping altogether once the sites are operational. Mayor Ted Wheeler said at Wednesday's City Council meeting that his goal is to get enough shelter and housing to eliminate unsanctioned camping in Portland. in city parks and near schools, day cares and construction sites and on some sidewalk areas.īut while there appears to be an increasing appetite for camping regulations in Oregon's largest city, advocates said the new rules would further burden homeless people and strain nonprofits already working at capacity. The measure would prohibit camping between 8 a.m. After three violations, people could be fined up to $100 or be sent to jail for up to 30 days. People who break the rules would receive a warning for the first two violations. This story will be updated with more information.Homeless people would have to dismantle their camp every morning and remove their belongings and any litter during the day. Even its location, tucked covertly under in a vintage red brick building under the Morrison bridge added to its sense of authenticity, especially as it stayed open late into the evening as other places closed up for the night. Its long, shared tables meant that diners often bumped shoulders with strangers in a way that few other Portland restaurants offered, predating the communal dining fad of the early 2000s.
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Its Cajun-adjacent menu was perhaps less of a draw than its atmosphere, with ribald servers in crisp white jackets bantering with diners, bellowing oyster shot orders to the kitchen, and folding up leftover bowls of spicy mac and cheese or alligator tail in tinfoil roses and animals.
Since the restaurant opened in 1992, Bistro Montage was a haven for post-show diners, high school cast parties, first dates, and family gatherings.
“We depart with the special feeling that most Portlanders have a memorable Montage story-whether it was a first date or the last stop after a night on the town,” the post reads. The restaurant’s team posted on Facebook this morning, announcing that it would permanently close its doors after 27 years of service due to financial struggles with COVID-19. Fans of late-night bowls of macaroni and cheese, oyster shots, and jambalaya have a reason to be sad today - Le Bistro Montage will not reopen after the coronavirus pandemic ends.
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