The Yakima City Council on Wednesday is expected to approve an agreement with a local Christian organization creating a temporary homeless encampment near the former mill site along I-82. The city is partnering with Sunrise outreach center of Yakima to create the encampment along Cascade Mill Parkway North of the new roundabout. The city owns more than a half-acre of property in that area where it wants to locate the encampment. City officials say they'll fence the area and require security, rules, water, and sewer and garbage and waste collection. No target date to when it would open but if it's approved it'll stay open until October 15 when cold weather shelters open in Yakima.  The city meets at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday at Yakima City hall.

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