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The city's commission voted to criminalize camping on city streets beginning next year, with stricter regulations in place until then.
Levi Ludwig, 26, told the Bozeman City Commission that he feels targeted and unfairly blamed for problems other homeless people create. Ludwig lives in a camper with three roommates on Bozeman's streets. Credit: Matt Standal / MTFP
BOZEMAN - So-called "urban campers" will find themselves with a strict new set of rules to abide by in the city of Bozeman in the coming months.
That's after the Bozeman City Commission voted last week to put an expiration date on the city's tolerance of people living in vehicles, campers, trailers and tents on city streets.
Going forward, the commission is expected to formally adopt ordinance 2172, which sets an expiration date on urban camping in the city, and until then gives the city manager full authority to move campers to wherever he sees fit and creates a permit system that includes $2...
