<body><div><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=4eFGUF_0vli5h4000" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=4eFGUF_0vli5h4000" width="1470" height="714" ><figcaption>Only a few items were left Thursday evening at Ninth and Pacific.</figcaption></figure>On Thursday evening I got off the bike and looked around near the Ninth Avenue ramp on the south side of the Pacific Boulevard viaduct in Albany. The site had been almost completely cleaned up.For three weeks since the closure of Marvin’s Garden, the City of Albany’s former designated homeless camp site at Ninth Avenue and Jackson Street, people had settled down a block to the west.The Oregon Department of Transportation owns the property there, bordering Highway 20 or Pacific Boulevard and across the ramp from the Helping Hands shelter. In early September, ODOT posted notices saying the encampment had to be gone by Sept. 14, and any belongings left there after that would be removed.But it took longer for the people staying near the ramp to move, most likely because, well, where could they go?<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=1mrAPD_0vli5h4000" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=1mrAPD_0vli5h4000" width="1470" height="724" ><figcaption>This was the scene near the Ninth Avenue ramp on Sept. 16.</figcaption></figure>But as I say, the next time a bike ride took me past the location, on Sept. 26, almost all the stuff that had been there a few days before had disappeared. And the campers had, too.<figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3ObUNi_0vli5h4000" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3ObUNi_0vli5h4000" width="1216" height="913" ><figcaption>Looking at the site from near the highway on the evening of Sept. 26.</figcaption></figure><figure><img src="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?type=thumbnail_580x000&amp;url=3USdUp_0vli5h4000" alt="https://img.particlenews.com/image.php?url=3USdUp_0vli5h4000" width="1216" height="913" ><figcaption>About the only thing left was this stake holding ODOT’s notice that camping there is prohibited.</figcaption></figure>The people who had been camping at the site since Aug. 29, when Marvin’s Garden closed, might have numbered about a dozen or so.I didn’t see them leave, and I don’t know where they went. I hope they found a spot somewhere that is sheltered and reasonably safe. (hh)</div></body>

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Camp site near 9th Avenue ramp is clear

On Thursday evening I got off the bike and looked around near the Ninth Avenue ramp on the south side of the Pacific Boulevard viaduct in Albany. The site had been almost completely cleaned up. For three weeks since the closure of Marvin’s Garden, the City of Albany’s former designated...