Salem considers banning daytime sleeping on sidewalks

Shoppers walk along State Street in downtown Salem. (Caleb Wolf/Special to Salem Reporter)

Update 6:40 p.m.: The original article has been updated to include more information.

The city of Salem is making another run at keeping sidewalks clear from behaviors that have repeatedly disrupted downtown businesses, reviving a legal approach it tried two years ago.

Salem’s proposal would ban sleeping or lying on sidewalks and other public rights-of-way from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. It…