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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are panhandlers and homeless people near every metro station in DC. Literally. A family shelter is not going to change the panhandling situation. We live in a city, everyone. If you're bothered by urban living, it's perfectly acceptable to move to the suburbs. [/quote]

What probably bothers many residents in Cathedral Heights and McLean Gardens, whose area is semi-suburban more than urban, is that these aspects of "urban living" and the problems associated with it, are being introduced into the neighborhood by Mary Cheh and DC bureaucrats without benefit of a robust public process.[/quote]

By most definitions NW DC is urban, certainly the parts of it near Wisconsin Avenue are.  But I suspect by urban what you mean is black and that is what you don't want in your neighborhood.

And precisely what are the problems anyhow - besides having to decline the occasional pan handler it is unclear to me what exactly it is you are fearful of?

Also there were numerous public meetings about the shelter plan - both in the neighborhood and at the City Council.

Again for the thousanth time on this thread the shelter is going to be serving families not the long term homeless and FWIW there are long term homeless in the neighborhood already.[/quote]

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