#1,815 - 'It's the wild, wild west': Barricades rise as tension mounts over sprawling swimming pool encampment

Road crews spent the morning Wednesday placing cement barricades along Myers Way in Seattle's Highland Park neighborhood to prevent any more vehicles from entering a sprawling homeless encampment in the woods.

The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) placed notices in the encampment last week advising people to remove operable vehicles from the site before the barricades are placed. Despite the warning, there are still at least a dozen vehicles inside the encampment, and the state estimates around 50 people are living there.

“They’re either going to force them to leave, or they’re not leaving. I don’t know what’s going to happen,” said Travis Macklin, who lives across the street from the encampment at the SHAG Arrowhead Gardens senior apartments.

Macklin and his neighbors have been insisting for months that the state and city close down the camp after a homicide, gunfire, open drug use, and reports of stolen property and vehicles ending up at the encampment.

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