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Jennifer L. Hall
From:Michelle Derak <
Sent:Friday, October 22, 2021 1:39 PM
To:Public Comment
Subject:\[EXTERNAL\] CUP for West St & Pioneer
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Dear Anaheim City Council.
I am a 57 year resident of Anaheim and live within 1 block of the West St
& Pioneer home that Grandma's house of Hope is looking to secure for
those with mental issues not allowed to be disclosed to neighbors.
I would like to urge you to uphold your original decision.
If your original decision criteria has been rectified by GHOF, I urge you to
deny this application for CUP based on safety for the neighborhood. We
are saturated in our area with like homes and we have seen an increase in
crime over the last 15 years.
Furthermore, with an admitted 400 police officers for ALL of Anaheim, it
is an unfair burden to have all these homes in one particular area of
Anaheim.
How can we adequately protect the elderly and children who live in this
area.
1 block from a high school and 3 blocks from 2 elementary schools.
We cannot take chances with the safety of our neighborhoods.
We can find another solution but turning the large homes in our
neighborhoods into homes for people who should be under constant
medical and psychiatric care is not the answer.
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The answer is asking these homes to be moved into commercial and
industrial areas where there are not an overabundance of vulnerable
neighbors.
There is absolutely nothing that was presented on Thursday night to make
us neighbors feel any more safe.
1 person on duty for 15 + 1 residents. Only time there will be more than 1
is during shift changes.
The woman representing GHOH did NOT give clear and concise answers
and had ZERO stats she could give us to make us feel any better about
this.
We the taxpayers are funding this and thus should have a say.
I understand the state of California has replied to you and is trying to force
you to have no say, but if we have to sue the State, then we need to do
that.
Anaheim is suffering all through this once great city.
We need to use another neighborhood that is not already so saturated.
Kids and elderly walk by these homes daily and are at risk whether anyone
wants to admit it.
I am a resident and a neighbor of this proposed CUP and I say NO.
OR let's talk more about it. Let's have more than 1 person there at all
times! Not just shift changes. We are all a protected class in one way or
another and we cannot just give one protected class all the rights, while
denying our elderly, sick and disabled, children and other protected classes
none.
The owner of this home stands to make upward of 25k monthly and its our
money that is being paid to him.
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He will still turn a profit and GHOH needs to have more staff.
If a patient, and thats what they are, decides to go off their meds, it could
turn dangerous very quickly!
It's sad, but if in an area that is not residential, they will not be a direct
threat and any situation that arises can be handled without harm coming to
a neighbor, child or elderly walking by.
Thank you for your time and upholding your original decision to deny.
This time based on safety and unknowns.
Michelle E Derakhshanian
Westmont Drive 92801
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