Yorba Linda, CA Homelessness & Encampment Rules: Encampment Sanitation (2026)

Section 10.28.090, part of the Stopping, Standing and Parking chapter, provides that no person shall be permitted to camp or lodge on public property anywhere in the City, and separately requires compliance with posted traffic and parking regulations on that property. The City Manager may issue special permits allowing an otherwise-prohibited campout or event under Section 10.28.090(C), and must apply neutral, nondiscriminatory criteria in deciding whether to grant one. The section expressly preserves the narrower camping allowance in the Parks chapter: Section 12.20.020(M) makes it unlawful to camp or lodge within any City park or trail except in areas the City Manager has specifically designated and posted as camping sites, and Section 10.28.090(D) confirms that activity permitted under that parks provision is not overridden by the general public-property ban.

Because the prohibition covers 'public property' broadly, it reaches sidewalks, parking lots, civic-center grounds and other City-owned land beyond parks. The City Manager also has authority under Section 10.28.090(E) to adopt further reasonable regulations implementing the camping ban, which the City can use to establish notice or other procedures for any encampment found on public land. Because Chapter 10.28 does not set out its own separate penalty, a violation is punishable under the City's general penalty provision, Section 1.12.010, which allows a fine of up to $1,000, imprisonment up to six months, or both, with the City Attorney able to charge repeat conduct as either a misdemeanor or an infraction, and each day the condition continues counted as a separate offense.