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[quote=Anonymous]https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/maryland/maryland-community-outraged-plans-build-drug-rehab-center-near-elementary-school/65-0e554bea-de62-4dda-9a26-3cfad084f2eb

This is outrageous and MoCo residents need visibility so they can take action.

A Florida-based for-profit addiction/behavioral health residential treatment center business quietly purchased two properties next to each other on a quiet neighborhood street between small SFHs. The property backs up to Greenwood Elementary’s playground, separated by a chain link fence. They plan to have 16+ patients/residents.

Apparently current zoning laws allow this.

The linked article/video shows you how the property abuts the school’s playground along with a big security gate at the driveway entrance between two SFHs.

This is apparently happening in other area neighborhoods as well.

Before anyone screams NIMBY, let me say that I’m fine with a for-profit business running this very profitable business endeavor as long as it doesn’t border a school and isn’t situated in a SFH neighborhood squeezed between two houses.

You wouldn’t allow a 24/7 for-profit business to plop itself down in a neighborhood, and I can’t imagine anyone thinks a high-level treatment facility should share a border with a school playground.

They’ve said that they will “keep the patients inside.” It’s not a lockdown facility, so that’s a ridiculous thing to say.

There is a change.org petition and county residents should call and email the County Executive and County Council to voice your concerns.

The County Council has said their hands are tied since current zoning laws allow this. Why not change the law to make clear that such facilities should not border schools—and the interests of Florida-owned for-profit businesses should not take precedence over MoCo homeowners?

While this example is in Brookeville, it’s happening in other pockets of the county. Your neighborhood could be next.

If you go 5 minutes up the road, Brookeville has plenty of houses on big lots—essentially farmland, open fields, etc. They are welcome to build there lucrative business venture there…just not on the border of an elementary school.

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