Rob Parritt says the work has become all-consuming and he will give it up after overseeing the city’s increasingly overwhelmed Oxford Street Shelter for the better part of a decade.

Opponents of Portland’s plan for a new shelter point to tensions in Montana – site of a facility that has garnered praise from officials here.

But the session appears to do little to allay the concerns of those who don’t want the facility in the Nason’s Corner neighborhood.

The city provides new information about alternatives in advance of a community forum Saturday.