In this particular case, without the legal assistance of HCLDF, an victim of the legislation (a panhandler) would have little hope of fighting the action. There should be something in place to make legislative bodies give more consideration to the constitutionality of their actions.
Obviously, a City Attorney isn't enough because in this case, the CA most certainly knew of case law prohibiting the the restrictions, and yet moved forward at the direction of the Council.

If there were penalties proscribed to protect the citizenry from undue legal ramblings of City employees' infringement issues, we would see less of this. Just as the County Ordinance limiting political donations failed, so too must limits on speech here.

What a waste of resources to continue to pass these ridiculous and clearly unconstitutional ordinances. I bet the cost of the legal proceedings alone is more than panhandlers get combined over the course of a year.