Clark County is planning to close a section of a pedestrian trail near the Eastside to deter a rise in homeless encampments, the latest in a string of punitive measures officials have taken amid the rising numbers of homelessness.
Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom, who brought the proposal, agreed that closing the trail could become a game of “whack-a-mole” where people just move to another neighborhood.
He also wasn’t sure if it actually led to someone exiting homelessness. But he maintained that the county needed to close the trail because “at the end of the day, they can’t live there.”…