With proposed ordinance, Bozeman looks to curb advance of urban camping
Officer Vongher talks with 31-year-old Brittany Belcourt, who lives with her husband in the couple’s RV parked on Equestrian Lane in Bozeman. Belcourt works in food delivery and said her husband is a construction foreman. In her free time, she grows cherry tomatoes, lettuce and peppers in a tiny garden she tends in front of the RV. “It is surprisingly difficult to pick up your house and move it around a bunch,” Belcourt said. (Matt Standal/MTFP)
BOZEMAN — For Bozeman police officer Scott Vongehr, a trip to the city’s urban encampments is like a scavenger hunt for items you’d normally see at a garage sale or in your neighbor’s messy backyard.
Whether it’s a stack of snow tires waiting for winter, a broken-down riding lawn mower that somebody promises to fix or a vehicle transmission that needs wrenching, Vongehr said these items show that Bozeman’s urban campers are here to stay, even as the city struggles to put limits on them...
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