The Los Angeles City Council voted 13-2 to approve an ordinance restricting homeless encampments from public areas Aug. 3 after Mayor Eric Garcetti signed the code on July 29. Councilmembers Mike Bonin and Nithya Raman were the two dissenting votes.  The ordinance bans the homeless from “sitting, lying, or sleeping or storing, using, maintaining, or placing personal property” in the public right-of-way; this includes spaces within 500 feet of schools, parks and libraries, 500 feet from an overpass, freeway ramp, tunnel, bridge, or subway, and 5 feet from building entrances. It also gives city council members the ability to ban encampments in parts of their districts.   “For them to continue to allow someone to live in an environment without running water, without toilets without trash service, when we know that the life expense expectancy for those on the street is 20 years less, when we know they’re much more likely to be a victim of violent crime … How is it compassionate to allow that?” …