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[quote=Anonymous]Like previous posters, I'm really confused about why Leudtke is so intent on providing cover for this business. There probably is campaign funding being traded here. Maybe there are personal connections too with the owners of the business (who lied in the real estate transactions about their intent for the properties). At any rate she made it clear she feels contempt and superiority to the community being impacted.

I was in the meeting in person and was outright shocked at the public meltdown she had, as an elected official, yelling at the community that she doesn't care, and acting like we were monsters for not wanting a 3.5 level treatment facility NEXT TO AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL AND ITS PLAYGROUND. Her assistant was actively cutting off the microphone so residents couldn't finish their comments or voice their concern. They kept going to questions from the zoom audience so they wouldn't have to hear from the community members present. It was all very managed. I came away really disheartened, realizing our local county officials aren't actually there to serve their citizens but rather businesses.

If the county wanted to they could use common sense to interpret the law as treating any contiguous properties owned by the same corporation as one property. If there's an obvious loophole then fix it. Why just throw up your hands and say it's a loophole and there's nothing that can be done? It's rings very false, we all see through it.

If at the end of the day there's no such thing as residential zoning, because any neighborhood could get inundated with businesses, then why do we pretend there is? Why do we even have the category "residential."

Why are we pretending that a business is not a business?

I also can't understand why this business is being so shady. What are they trying to hide or get away with, beyond all the shady stuff they've already done? Why did no one at this business question whether putting their addiction medical facility NEXT TO A SCHOOL was a good idea? Why do they want to operate in a neighborhood where everyone actively hates them? Where they've done nothing to instill confidence? And a neighborhood that will be ready to call the police for every infraction? From a business perspective this seems like placing a lot of risk on a business. It also doesn't seem like such a great set-up for the patients themselves, you know, the patients that Leudtke claims to be such a passionate campaigner for.[/quote]

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