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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dear Neighbors: 
I'm writing with concern that a residential youth drug rehabilitation facility is being placed at 1345 Taylor St, NW, on the same block as Powell Elementary School. We, as neighbors, were not notified in advance of the property owner's intent to transition his property into this type of facility, and we are working to block it from occurring through the change.org petition in addition to letters to DC officials. 
Sincerely, 
Elisa Waske[/quote]

Elisa,
What you are proposing is known as "Not In My Backyard Syndrome".  But you have chosen to live in a huge city, and huge cities are going to have drug rehab facilities and liquor stores along with organic groceries and museums.

If you want to live in a place that does not have drug rehabs nearby, then consider moving to a suburban bedroom community with strict zoning that separates residences from other uses.  Lots of those communities exist.

But understand that most of us CHOOSE to live in the big city because we LIKE that there are lots of things going on, we enjoy not owning a car, and appreciate having a diverse mix of people in the neighborhood.  No, we don't like petty crime.  But we deal with the negative aspects of city life in ways other than trying to control what everyone does with every property on the block.  You'd go crazy trying to control the neighbors like that.  But of course people try.

And I'm curious -- where do you think the "right" neighborhood for a drug rehab would be?  I suppose in any neighborhood except your own...[/quote]

NP.  It's easy to be a sanctimonious blowhard when it's not your house, your street, or your child's school.  I don't live in this woman's neighborhood, but until you produce the letters you've written, welcoming the drug-addicts, the gang-bangers, and the pedophiles onto your street one can only think of you as a bloviating cow who should keep her methane-loaded brain-farts to herself.[/quote]

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