[1] The initial encampment was set up in October, 2011 on private property in Old Town Chinatown at Northwest 4th Avenue and West Burnside Street.

[6] Code of conduct reads drug and weapon free zone as cited by Oregon Public Broadcasting in February 2016.

[9] Portland Tribune reported in August 2020 that about 100 people utilize the encampment every 24 hours, but R2D2 does not collect or maintain any information on the overnight guests.

[14] Complaints about its transient campsite to the city's Bureau of Development Services dried up and dropped to just one in a 12 month period by February 2015.

[10] A warehouse in Northwest Portland and a location in the industrial area of the central east side were considered as well, but did not materialize due to cost and neighborhood oppositions.

[11] In April 2017, the city agreed to allow the organized encampment to move to a land owned by the Portland Bureau of Transportation and stay for up to two years.

[16] The camp remained at the original location for over five years before moving to a temporary site in North Portland on N Thunderbird Way in July 2017.