Dawn Cooper smokes a cigarette Monday in front of her encampment off of Government Way in Coeur d’Alene. The property’s owner is preparing for development of the land where homeless people live year-round. (SR photo: Kathy Plonka)

For the past year, a campsite under a blue tarp in the wooded area behind Coeur d’Alene’s Target store has been home for Dawn Cooper. But on Monday morning, Cooper was packing up. She and her wife, Dawn Garvin, want to be off the site well in advance of police coming to clear the private property of trespassers. The two women were told they have to be gone by Wednesday. “We don’t want to be here when they start arresting people,” said Cooper, a 40-year-old construction worker. Cooper and Garvin aren’t sure where they’ll go next, a dilemma for many in one of North Idaho’s largest homeless camps. Douglass Properties of Spokane, the landowner, has asked the city of Coeur d’Alene to dismantle the camp and evict trespassers/Becky Kramer, SR. More here.

Question: Are you happy/unhappy that the authorities finally have permission to evict transients from the camp behind Target?