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Public Comment
From:Sammy Francis <
Sent:Friday, November 20, 2020 9:54 AM
To:Public Comment
Cc:Samantha Saenz; Jordan Brandman
Subject:Tuesday council meeting 11/24
City council
These types of projects are not well advertised to the public whether to oppose or be in favor of. As evident of only 1
formal appeal by Maria Mercedes and the ones for are advocates group not resident affected by this drastic change.
I hear that in the past with these type of transitional housing operate in a strictly residential single family homes, it
affects The lifestyle and feel of the community . It changes it to business atmosphere with this many persons living there
along with all the staff. It may feel like An apartment building next to your home. With rotating tenants of which may
not care about the establish family community that surrounds them. 25 beds in a nine bedroom home with no planned
renovations or These facilities have too much activity , visitors, and amount of traffic are not regularly controlled . They
bring an unfair burden , worry, blight and depreciation of surrounding properties despite the best intentions.
It sounds like a good project but is there accountability on helping anaheim residents first or only?
Otherwise why operate in anaheim why operate in west/central anaheim . Why not operate in Other cities in south
Orange County like laguna beach or Irvine or mission Viejo or others ?. Why is anaheim or Santa Ana always the
dumping grounds?
I think that these transitional houses even listed as nonprofit are for profit and don’t really answer to the city they are
operating in.
Why operate here in anaheim if your are serving other cities trouble youth?since they only have 1 in LA & 1 in Oakland 1
in Berkeley, our City will be over run with these troubled Youth coming to anaheim. So what happens when program
fails or Individuals age out unsuccessfully or just walk out of the program they end up on our streets and a burden to the
city and its citizens.
Is there a dollar incentive to the city?
Do we receive funding from state for
Doing this?
If
No to Both I along with many others would say no City council do Not allow this anaheim. Especially if it will cost us by
way of 911 first response police medical and code Enforcement and health inspection where a normal single family
home would Not .
By the way 18-24 are not youth these are mostly adults.
Hope you can make the right decision and vote for what is good for all anaheim not for Bolstering your careers.
Thanks for listening
Sammy Francis
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