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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the day to day nuisance you are afraid of? Sounds like you expect residents to try passing needles through the fence to kids at recess or something similarly far fetched. [/quote]

Mentally ill addicts with impulse control issues [b]leering at kids across the fence or wandering around school property.[/b] There will be 16+ beds and this is a for-profit business that needs to keep the beds filled to make a profit.

The neighborhood has a wooded path along the perimeter of the school to the neighborhood park and pool. It’s the easiest way to walk from the facility location to the nearest shopping center.

16+ strangers crammed into a facility rotating through on 30 day stints, new people and staff and vendors coming and going.

This doesn’t belong by a school or between SFHs. 
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“Mentally ill addicts” are not pedophiles; where is this “leering” nonsense coming from? You sound like a nut.

The same rules about loitering apply to them as to any of your existing neighbors.[/quote]

Generally speaking, people with severe mental health issues can be unpredictable. Nobody has suggested they might serve pedophiles (hopefully that won’t be the case), but the company’s website says they serve people with schizophrenia and other serious mental health issues.

Again, these people should have access to residential treatment. The question is why allow a for-profit’s business venture take precedence over the community’s interest of not having such a large facility alongside an elementary school and smack dab in the middle of two SFHs?

Quick show of hands: who would want a 16+ bed facility immediately next to their school or house?

ICYMI: there is a somewhat similar facility over on Avery Road near a school and their faculty have flagged that it presents real issues—including patients wandering onto the property and into the building. [/quote]

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