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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.change.org/p/nextdoor-parklawn-stop-fairfax-county-from-erecting-a-homeless-shelter-next-door-to-lincolnia-senior-center

And a senior center.  With a daycare, elementary school, private schools as less than 1/10 a mile away I find this an atrocious move.  Citizens of the area are concerned for their kids safety as well as the safety of their elderly realitives in the senior center.  My daughter goes to the very good Catholic school that is about three hundred yards away.  [b]This sickens my stomach[/b].[/quote]

It sickens your stomach.  What is wrong with you?  Just b/c they are homeless you believe their are all violent criminals.  WOW.

You are pretty awful OP.

But lets just say you are right, homeless shelters have a curfew and typically the guests can't come and go as they please throughout the night, so based on your judgment of the homeless isn't it better to have them be inside a shelter safely away from the kids and elderly?

BTW if your kid goes to a "very good Catholic school" there is a pretty good chance there is at least one homeless child there on scholarship. Speaking of your daughter being in Catholic school I am pretty sure they are not teachering her to be judgmental and sickened by the less fortunate.  Maybe you should go to school with your daughter tomorrow.

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I have an idea, let's move it to your neighborhood right next to the school and see how you feel.  I think that's a great idea.  There's no screening these people to see if they're mentally unstable which a lot are.  This is a safety issue and as other have noted it brings crime[/quote]

I live in courthouse, there is homeless shelter by the metro about 1/2 mile from where I live and 3 or 4 blocks from the elementary school. I am fine with it.  
Try again![/quote]

NP.  And homeless people wander around Clarendon all the time.  No impact on home prices.  One dude is really loud, though.  Local flavor.  Keeps the spineless millennials on their toes.[/quote]

Clarendon is densely commercial. I think that's ideal for a homeless shelter. No issue there so long as it isn't next to a school library or senior center.[/quote]

Clarendon is commercial and dense and doesn't have elementary schools within a quick walking distance either [/quote]

There is an elementary school at 2300 Key Blvd.  It is absolutely within quick walking distance to Clarendon as is the shelter already in Courthouse that is 3 blocks away.  Stop trying to find a new home.  A homeless shelter is not going to be the downfall of a neighborhood even if it is next to a school.

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Clarendon is city, Lincolnia is more suburbs.  Two elementary schools, senior citizens home and two pre-schools.  It's danger close[/quote]

Wait so shelters near suburban schools is bad but it is ok to have them near urban schools. 
Make up your mind. Is it that you don't think shelters should be near schools or it is that you don't think they should be near your schools in your suburb. [/quote]

The shelter in Arlington is at a busy location right next to a police station.  FFX already said they will not commit a police officer to the area.  To boot, a police captain came out to the meeting at the hearing and said "yeah, crime is going to go up."  It did around the current shelter.

To boot, this is an area that is highly resdenitial where everyone is at work during the day.  Most burglaries happen during the day.  They'll be kicking this people out of the shelter at 930 in the morning and they have no where to go.  They'll be loitering around resdenitial areas and schools.  I the current shelter they sit outside and panhandle.

I think they should out it next to the FFX police station down the road.  It Has plenty of space [/quote]

And it's next to a senior citizens home.  They'll be undefended.  Let's be honest, a good population of homeless are addicts.  It's funny the Arlington people are saying it's okay, the original proposal was to put in Ina building on the Arlington/Fairfax border and Arlington residence were the ones who came out in full force to protest against the location [/quote]

Not that I have a problem with another shelter, but we have six and you have seven.  Yet you have 16 times the land that Arlington does.[/quote]

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