Lawyers for the city and county of San Francisco are hoping to reach a settlement with a coalition of residents and businesses in the Tenderloin led by the University of California, Hastings College of the Law who sued the city for allowing homeless encampments and drug dealing to overwhelm the neighborhood’s sidewalks.

U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar of the Northern District of California said during an initial case management conference in the case Thursday that he was going to grant the parties’ request to appoint U.S. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley to oversee settlement talks.