More than 75 tents ring the Rocky Top Resources mulch yard, forming a small suburb around the bustling landscaping supply company.
But like another homeless encampment here four years ago, its days appear numbered.
El Paso County sheriff’s officials on Friday plan to oversee dismantling of the encampment.
The move comes amid a growing debate over whether sanctioned homeless encampments should be created in the city – an idea pushed by some homeless advocates and campers but strongly opposed by Mayor John Suthers.
It also marks the latest chapter in a cat-and-mouse routine of police and sheriff’s deputies dismantling illegal homeless encampments, only to see those same campers pitch tents a few hundred yards away, unwilling or unable to check into a shelter.
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