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BOB HALLINEN / Anchorage Daily News

John Martin was camped out in front of City Hall July 15, 2011, but since then has moved across the street. Martin is protesting Mayor Dan Sullivan's policy of clearing homeless camps in Anchorage.

Peeved by his inability to stop a homeless man's sit-down protest downtown, Mayor Dan Sullivan wants a law that would punish anyone who sat or reclined on a downtown sidewalk.

The proposal is up for public hearing before the Anchorage Assembly on Tuesday.

The idea of a new law came up, said city attorney Dennis Wheeler, because the administration wanted to remove John Martin. Martin hung out with his blanket on the City Hall sidewalk for days and nights in late June. He is now set up on the sidewalk kitty-corner from City Hall at Sixth Avenue and G Street