23 (37)Jennifer L. Hall
From: LTORGERSON@roadrunner.
Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 11:03 AM
To: Avelino Valencia; Harry Sidhu (Mayor); Jennifer Diaz; Jose Moreno; Public Comment;
Stephen Faessel; Trevor O'Neil; Gloria S. Ma'ae
Subject: [EXTERNAL] CUP 2021-06106 Shelter for 20 severely disabled people
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Dear Mayor Sidhu and City Council Members,
My husband Larry and I would like to express our strong opposition to approving the above CUP at 626 N West
St. Approving a shelter for 15 "severely and persistently mentally -ill" people in a single-family residential
neighborhood is incompatable with the surrounding community and inconsistent with the vision of the Anaheim
Colony Historic District.
We have lived in the Colony for 44 years. During that time, we have seen this particular neighborhood be
subjected to quite a number of smaller, unregulated group homes. In the immediate area, there are three - by
immediate, I mean next door to this property and within one block south and one block west.
Luckily, a group home of this size is required to request a CUP from the city, and you all are the last line of
defense. The city actually attempted to pass an ordinance this past year to regulate the saturation of group
homes in this exact area. You get the idea - there are already too many here!
Just because someone asks for a CUP doesn't mean it needs to be granted. And once granted, our experience has
been that it is very difficult to revoke. In this case, it is the wrong use in the wrong place.
Please do the right thing and deny this request.
Dinah Torgerson