Temecula, CA Homelessness & Encampment Rules: Sit-Lie Rules (2026)

060, titled 'Prohibited conduct on public property, monuments, and lawns,' lists three separate bans. First, no person may walk, stand, sit, or lie upon a monument, vase, decorative fountain, drinking fountain, bike rack, trash receptacle, median, fire hydrant, street-tree planter, berm, utility cabinet, railing, fence, planter, stairwell, parking lot or parking structure, or any other public property not designed or customarily used for such purposes. Second, the same conduct is banned on any public lawn or planted area that is posted with signs forbidding it, meaning the lawn restriction only bites where the city has posted notice.

Third, no person may walk, stand, or lie upon any public bench (sitting on a bench is not listed as prohibited, only walking, standing, or lying on one). 010 is keeping public areas like streets, sidewalks, and parks accessible and safe by curbing loitering activity that interferes with public use, particularly around fixtures not designed to bear that use. 060 unless it involves one of the listed fixtures, a posted lawn, or a bench.