Fremont, CA Homelessness & Encampment Rules: Encampment Sanitation (2026)

010 as keeping streets, parks and public and private areas "clean, sanitary and accessible" and protecting public health and safety, while not interfering with otherwise lawful uses of property. 030(b) lists five specific waterway protections beyond the waste-discharge ban: no building structures or driving nails into trees along a waterway bank, no moving boulders or destroying vegetation or paved paths, no driving or parking vehicles along the banks outside designated areas, and no digging on the banks. Camping is also barred outright in any area designated a high fire risk area.

030(c) protect donating food, water or goods to another person, family or friends camping with consent on a residential lot containing a single-family home, and activities normally incidental to lawful use of private property. 040 separately makes it a nuisance to store personal property, including tents, bedrolls and cooking equipment, on public or private property without written consent, and bars storage that blocks street or sidewalk maintenance, blocks ADA-required passage, sits within 10 feet of an operational entrance, exit, driveway or loading dock, or remains past a posted closure time; the city can move or immediately impound property violating the ADA or entrance-clearance rules without prior notice.

050 lets the city manager adopt rules for removing and recovering personal property; absent separate rules, property left in a prohibited camping area for more than 24 hours can be removed and held for the owner to reclaim for up to 90 days.