you need to know that the City Council is about to revoke a law controlling the concentration of supportive housing. Supportive housing houses adults or children who are challenged in some way and require on-site supervision. These facilities include housing for chemically, mentally or physically disabled residents as well as recently released offenders. When well run, these facilities provide the vital care to those in need. Probably the facility near you presents few or no problems. However, the law that limits the spacing of supportive housing to one per 1/4 mile radius (Chapter 536.20) is under assault. Without citizen intervention, this spacing law will be eliminated. If eliminated, there will be no limit to the number of supportive housing facilities that can be legally clustered near the one that now exists near your home. Your neighborhood may end up like several others in the city: islands of hyper-concentrated supportive housing. Without Chapter 536.20 there will be nothing to prevent such extreme clustering of supportive housing in your neighborhood. Now is the time to speak out. Call or e-mail Mayor Rybak at R.T. [EMAIL PROTECTED] or the Chair of the Zoning Committee, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tell them that supportive housing should not be clustered. Suppportive housing is a good thing, but clustering them is a bad idea for the residents of such housing and for neighborhoods. It should be spread out throughout the city. After all, 38 of Minneapolis' neighborhoods have no supportive housing. _______________________________________
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