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Portlanders ask city for more flexible sewer requirements for RVs and tiny homes Updated 10:17 PM; Today 6:25 PM Facebook Share The Portland City Council hgot public input Wednesday on proposed rules that would allow people to legally live in an RV or tiny house on wheels parked on a single-family residential property. The proposal on the table would require people living in an RV or tiny home on private property to have a formalized sewer hook-up like what campgrounds have. Speakers largely supported allowing people to legally occupy such structures but opposed requiring the sewage infrast...

Updated March 10 The Portland City Council will vote soon on a proposal that would make it easier to site homeless shelters—but East Portlanders worry they will bear the brunt of the policy shift. "East Portland doesn't trust the city," says community advocate Donal Mac Uileagoid. "It feels like all the problems of the city are being shoved to the eastside." The Shelter to Housing Continuum Project would make it easier for anyone—property owners, nonprofits and the city—to open homeless shelters and would make other changes to city zoning code, such as legalizing RV occupancy on re...

and senator mary landrau from down south. breaking news overnight, the director of the international monetary fund now calling it quits. dominique strauss-khan accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid here in new york sent his resignation letter from his jail cell in rikers island. today, they are going to ask him to put under house arrest in manhattan. we've just learned an announcement regarding the successor will not come today. another developing story for you right now, the coast guard is searching for three people in the gulf of mexico after two boats slammed into one anothe...