After failing last year to reinstate the city s homeless camping ban, an Austin group says it has collected the required number of petition signatures to bring the issue before voters in May.
Save Austin Now says it turned in more than 27,000 signatures to the city clerk Tuesday, continuing its push to overturn a 2019 Austin City Council vote that repealed the city s public camping ordinance.
The signatures still must be validated by the clerk s office to verify that at least 20,000 of them came from registered voters living in the city. Save Austin Now says it validated 24,000 signatures that it turned in and did not attempt to validate another 3,000. It discarded 3,000 others it could not validate.