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Angela Smith <br /> From: Debra Javeline <javeline @nd.edu> <br /> Sent: Friday, February 16, 2018 11:05 AM <br /> To: Angela Smith <br /> Subject: women's health care <br /> Dear Ms. Smith, <br /> I am writing to request that the South Bend Common Council support the Whole Woman's Health OBGYN clinic by <br /> denying the rezoning of the adjacent property for a business. <br /> It has come to my attention that Women's Care Centers INC has purchased a private residence directly adjacent to the <br /> new Whole Woman's Health OBGYN. The singular motivation for this purchase is disruption. Women's Care Centers <br /> INC intends to disrupt women who are seeking health care and to disrupt the residential neighborhood. They intend to <br /> harass, protest, intimidate, and invite conflict, noise, a regular police presence, and associated costs. <br /> Whole Woman's Health OBGYN clinic will provide a much-needed service to our community. This is a medical facility <br /> that offers comprehensive reproductive health care, unavailable anywhere else in our community, and the facility is in <br /> an area long zoned for business. <br /> Women's Care Centers INC already has many other locations in South Bend and could build in other places that are <br /> zoned for businesses. Instead, they have chosen to purchase a private residence and ask for the private location to be <br /> rezoned as a business location, conveniently next to the business that they hope to disrupt. This is transparent. My <br /> understanding is that they paid the previous owner more than 50%over the assessed value of the home. What <br /> "business" does that in the name of sound fiscal management? There is no true business plan here,just a plan for <br /> disruption. <br /> If the Common Council agrees to rezone, the Council knowingly and cynically indulges the intention of Women's Care <br /> Centers INC. to turn a peaceful residential area into a political tool. That is unfair to the residents, unfair to the <br /> taxpayers, and unfair to the women in our community who are seeking privacy in their health care. <br /> Sincerely, <br /> Debra Ciliberti <br /> Debra Ciliberti <br /> 3432 Topsfield Road <br /> South Bend, IN 46614 <br /> Tel: 574-231-0220 <br /> Email: javeline@nd.edu <br /> 1 <br />