Phoenix must take down the zone

PHOENIX — An appeals court in Arizona upheld the trial court’s injunction requiring Phoenix to remove homeless encampments in an area called “the zone” and to keep the are from becoming a “public nuisance.” The city owns the property, so it must maintain it and keep it free of nuisance and biohazardous material; there was enough evidence of “persistent violence, drug use, other crime, human waste and litter” in the zone that allowed the lower court to conclude that its harm was “more than ‘relatively slight.’”