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Resident urges boulders, landscaping to deter encampments along Sloan trail; metro said to support idea
Summary
At the May 15 Sunrise Manor advisory board meeting, resident Al Rojas thanked commissioners for cooperation on encampment cleanups and proposed placing boulders and landscaping along a dirt trail from Sahara to Sloan to deter homeless encampments; he said Metro favored the idea but funding and next steps were not specified.
Al Rojas, a Sunrise Manor resident, used the general public comment period on May 15 to thank commissioners for cooperation on large homeless-encampment cleanups and to propose a neighborhood project to deter new encampments along a trail from Sahara to Sloan.
"We've been making major impact on the homeless problems, especially the large encampments, bringing them down," Rojas said, adding that social media has helped the community report reoccupations. He said neighbors cannot…
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