In a message dated 4/21/2010 12:30:22 Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes:
This was not going to be a standard shelter -- the larger plan was to close city-operated homeless facilities in several other neighborhoods such as Germantown and North Philly, and to send all their users -- most notably new applicants for assistance -- to this site. ____________________________________________________________________________ _______ She along with a financially strapped Mayor Nutter is employing a similar disingenuous consolidation technique to locate a private prison with day reporting center at the back end of her district, despite massive protestations from near by residents who are mostly poor and of color. http://tinyurl.com/24nn4kk _http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_left_story/20100421_Would_day_repor ting_be_better_for_nonviolent_offenders_.html_ (http://www.philly.com/inquirer/home_top_left_story/20100421_Would_day_reporting_be_better_for_nonviolent _offenders_.html) The prison's population is being labeled non-violent, nice and benign, like homeless women & children. Who knows what they pleaded down from or of what they were yet charged and convicted. Of course the early release convicts will need to travel in out and through UC to access the facility. But Jannie and Nutter have yet to listen to community concerns or give them any voice in the development process. As a counter-example SPhilly residents are vocal, organizing resistance, and demanding explanations from developer and City government regarding a day reporting center slated for Broad & Snyder. Perhaps that is why SPhilly gets so much more financial considerations for their neighborhoods -and not at the expense of the little people. The more criminals you have transiting through and destined for your community the more crime its residential and business base will experience. Liz, maybe Wharton doesn't want its precious students co-mingling with the Nutter Prison System's depopulated convict base. Maybe their Wharton's Criminology program's leaders whispered into Amy's ear that criminals really are dangerous and privileged Future Business Leaders of America are better off in CC than one Gaul of a UC. Perhaps someone may legally want to explain why the term spot zoning does not apply to CI2 on Walnut St? Also, did the zoning change get approved for the proposed State Store site on the NS 4200 block of Walnut St? Ciao, Craig
