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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At one point in the meeting, a community member brought up the point that the county won’t talk to the community. They will only discuss certain aspects with Dawn Ludke and to ask her. But when the community asked her, she angrily replied that she would not break privileged information to answer our questions!

Nobody’s asking her to break privilege or to break the law, but only asking for answers.[/quote]

She made it clear she wasn't interested in being re-elected, or serving her community. She should just resign if she hates the job so much.[/quote]

Surprised to hear Luedtke show up like that. She usually is staunchly in favor of public safety and security.[/quote]

Her talking points and attitude made clear that she thinks having 16+ severely mentally ill/addicted patients living next to a school while they are in the throes of their illness such that they require 24/7 residential treatment just isn’t a risk or a big deal at all. Moreover, she made clear that she thinks voters with concerns—including those currently living near a similar facility who can point to actual incidents/issues that have happened—are just cruel or clueless NIMBYs.

She made a comment that parents should be more concerned with school violence than this facility. That’s when everyone realized she was trying to divert attention (at best) and perhaps shame/scold voters who aren’t supportive.

She’s a politician…married to a former politician who was an advisor to Gov. Wes Moore. Of course she’s pro-business. This Florida based big business has likely thrown money her way for her next campaign.

Write to the CE and all council members. Tell them the county needs to find a way to handle this. They can incentivize the business to move elsewhere. Tell our elected leaders that we need common sense leadership now. Several of these folks will be running for County Executive soon enough. Make clear that we won’t forget this ridiculous lapse in leadership. They also must fix this zoning law moving forward. Eight patients/people with significant issues should not be permitted in a SFH—particularly when run by a for-profit business with multiple staff. It’s just too many. Four people in a 4 bedroom house with a 24/7 staff presence seems like a sensible upper limit for a nonprofit operating in a SFH in a residential neighborhood…and even that scenario doesn’t belong next to a school.

Anything bigger shouldn’t be in a neighborhood. [/quote]

Another common sense solution should be even if you allow such a facility next within a neighborhood, there definitely should be a restriction on such a facility BORDERING a school.

No one in Montgomery County takes the safety and wellbeing of children seriously. It's disgusting.[/quote]

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