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The Mayor's office, Tom Fulton, the Shelter
Advisory Board (SAB), and perhaps the Z&P Committee appear, from minutes
from the SAB meetings, to have been creating secret plans to cluster and
concentrate homeless housing. Actions at the Z&P Committee yesterday would
seem to bear out some of this suspicion.
Clearly Lisa Goodman was pointing this out with her
pointed questions, at the Mayor's staff person Eric Takeshita, about the Mayor's
office taking the lead in bringing the issue of the 1/4 mile rule and
concentration of supportive housing forward into the public's view. Thank you
Lisa.
The people in the affected communities need our
elected politicians to be up front and truthful with us. We need RT Rybak and
each City Council person to answer this question about your intentions. It
is no longer a secret that such "planning" has been going on. This
"List is the perfect forum for you to start answering this question.
Having "Staff" appear to come up with plans you have ordered them to make is not
being honest with the public. I know the Mayor, Gary Schiff, Dean
Zimmerman, Robert Lillegren, Lisa Goodman, Scott Benson, and other City Council
people regularly read the MPLS ISSUES, (and even write occasionally). So I know
these questions and comments will be read.
I challenge each of you to come out to the public
with your plans. This is an issue that is simply too important to keep
hidden.
Jim Graham,
Ventura Village
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