Title
Consider/Discuss/Act on an Ordinance Approving and Extending Ordinance No. 2025-10-098 for an Additional One-Year Team, Regarding the Prohibition of Camping in Parks or Public Areas Found in Chapter 70, Article XI (Camping) of the McKinney Code of Ordinances
Summary
COUNCIL GOAL: Enhance the Quality of Life in McKinney
MEETING DATE: October 5, 2026
DEPARTMENT: Police Department
Code Services Department
City Attorney’s Office
CONTACT: Jennifer Arnold, AICP, Assistant City Manager
Joe Ellenburg, Chief of Police
Phillip Hubbard, Director of Code Services
Jeremy Page, Assistant City Attorney
RECOMMENDED CITY COUNCIL ACTION:
? Adoption of the proposed Ordinance.
ITEM SUMMARY:
The proposed ordinance approves and extends Ordinance No. 2025-10-098 for an additional one-year term.
Ordinance No. 2025-10-098 was adopted in October 2025 to relocate and strengthen camping prohibitions in the McKinney Code of Ordinances. As part of its adoption, Ordinance No. 2025-10-098 included a one-year expiration if not reconsidered and extended by the Council.
The one-year expiration included in the adoption ordinance was to ensure city staff and leaders established a dedicated period of time to monitor implementation of the regulations and make progress on the broader community conversation regarding homelessness in McKinney (now known as the Better Together Initiative).
Staff continues to make progress on the Better Together Initiative and anticipates having a final document and discussion with Council in late 2026/early 2027 for possible strategies and opportunities to improve the state of homelessness in McKinney. We also continue to monitor implementation of the camping regulations.
To allow for completion of the Better Together Initiative and continued monitoring of the camping provisions, Staff recommends re-approving and extending Ordinance No. 2025-10-098. If City Council does not reconsider and extend the ordinance by October 5, 2027, it will expi...
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