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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The county cannot violate the Fair Housing Act. Period.

That's also the reason you see hundreds of "Brookeville Houses" popping up. Especially in the Olney/Brookeville area of the county.  Soon you will be surrounded by assisted living and treatment houses. There is no real stopping it. These places have high powered disability attorneys on hand to file lawsuits and demand letters at a moments notice. The county is not going to spend the money to fight multiple lawsuits that they have no chance of winning.[/quote]

The way you stop it is by changing the law.

While it doesn’t help stop this current project, it WILL stop other similar projects moving forward.

Everyone should email the county exec and all council members to say this:

Subject: Fix the zoning law so we aren’t inundated with overly large treatment facilities in residential areas —or next to schools

Dear X:

As a concerned voter and homeowner, I am shocked to hear about the level 3.5 treatment facility for 16+ people that will open soon next door to a school.

While I realize amending the zoning law will not fix the problem impacting Brookeville and Greenwood, taking action to change the law moving forward will prevent the proliferation of overly large treatment facilities in residential neighborhoods—as well as prevent them from being located adjacent to schools.

This is common sense.

Just because the zoning laws have been in place for decades doesn’t make it right.

Take action to fix the problem moving forward or publicly share why you won’t. And please spare us with the rhetoric attempting to shame us into silence. We realize people need access to residential treatment; we just don’t want large facilities to be located in SFHs in residential areas—and we certainly don’t want high level facilities located next to a school.

If our elected leaders disagree and refuse to fix the problem moving forward, our assumption is that you are beholden to the for-profit businesses currently gaming the MoCo zoning and permitting system. [/quote]

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