I don't want to appear insensitive to the neighborhoods that have an excessively high concentration of supportive housing. But...
It appears now that the law is regularly circumvented and has been for some time. If politicians lack the desire to enforce the existing law what is the point of keeping it? It would be one thing if supportive housing was distributed widely through the city and this revocation would trigger an avalance for example on Whittier, but doesn't revoking this law simply reflect reality? If another proposal came up that would violate this rule, but it was a good project and would benefit a class of people, chances are it would be approved despite the law.
Mike Hess
Kingfield
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [Mpls] If you live near supportive housing
>Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 16:28:42 EST
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>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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