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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At the PTA meeting we were informed that the facility will be a level 3.5 treatment facility: Clinically Managed High-Intensity Residential Services.

Level 3.5 involves high-intensity programs for adults who cannot be treated outside of a 24/7 facility due to severe physical or psychological problems or severe impulse control problems, or because they display dangerous symptoms that require 24-hour monitoring.5,6 Treatment services are provided by an interdisciplinary team, and onsite physicians are available but not required for phone or in-person consultation. Level 3.5 care typically takes place in freestanding facilities or specialty units of healthcare facilities (read: not in neighborhood homes). [/quote]

You wrote this with (read: not in neighborhood homes) on another thread.   Most of these kinds of facilities are in neighborhood homes.  That's exactly what "freestanding facilities" means.  It means not physically attached to a hospital or clinic or other facility.  Since people are learning skills to help them return to neighborhood homes, it makes sense for them to practice in neighborhood homes.

The fact that someone has impulsivity issues that mean they need support to stay sober in the early months, or health issues that make detoxing in their own home unsafe for them doesn't make them dangerous to neighbors.

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Most communities take a more thoughtful approach to zoning to avoid having 16+ people (plus staff) squeezed into a for-profit high level care facility next to a school and in between SFHs.

Most communities would treat such a large and complex care facility in a better location.

This is very different than a nonprofit recovery home with 3 or 4 individuals and a staff person. Equating the two makes no sense. [/quote]

This is exactly why people need to fight tooth and nail against any of the zoning reforms backed by the YIMBYs that allegedly promote "affordable housing," "housing near jobs," or "mixed-use communities." The end result of these deregulatory nutjob libertarian advocacy groups, is 24 hour bars in residential neighborhoods, halfway houses and drug addiction centers next to schools, strip clubs next to your kids daycare, criminal vagrants sleeping on the sidewalk in front of your house. Don't let the crazy biker bro advocates funded by developers/private equity funds destroy your neighborhood. [/quote]

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