01-26-09 Common Council Meeting Agenda & Packet

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Board of Zoning Appeals -January 15, 2009 beds between the Center for the Homeless and Hope Rescue Mission. Let me try and explain to you what that means. There's one homeless bed for every 3,890 people in Indianapolis. There's one homeless bed for every 3,428 people in Fort Wayne. There's zeros beds for homeless in Gary. And there's one homeless bed for every 360 citizens in South Bend. From where I stand that's a failure of government. And I ask that you try and keep the neighborhoods of South Bend from be coming, we've got crime everywhere and it's just not a good situation. ~ • MR. HOBAN: I believe we have a comment from Area Plan? MS. NAYDER: Which is what I believe Mr. Hoffman was started with the legal question, reading ahead to the Area Plans comments, correct? MR. HOFFMAN: That's correct. MS. NAYDER: We used the term weather amnesty because that's what was used in the petition. Chuck may have some documentation on what that is. I guess I don't care what you call it, applying for a group residence, a group residence could become much more full fledged than just overnight stays and we just wanted to try and tie it down to the overnight stays verses a full fledged group residence. So if weather amnesty isn't the right term, maybe we can look into changing that. Also I wanted to say it is on the Area Plan Commission for the February meeting for rezoning and after that go on to the City Council so it will have to be subject to the rezoning as well. MR. HOBAN: Chuck. MR. BULOT: We were just recently handed some information concerning the weather related care for homeless people. It appears that this group, the St. Joseph County Homeless Continuum Care is an organization that is trying to help supervise the care of homeless people in the City and they have a plan here that indicates a men's plan and a women's and children's plan. The men's plan includes a weather amnesty that begins at 8:00 p.m. in the Center for the Homeless with 20 beds. Hope Ministry, 10 beds not available till mid November. Life Treatment Center's 5 to 7 beds. Red Cross to be determined and that would be in the event of an officially declared weather emergency. And then they have a women and children's plan which weather amnesty that begins at 8 p.m. at the YWCA, up to four families or eight single women depending on the availability. The Center for the Homeless, two families and ten single women. Life Treatment Center 5 to 7 single women. And then the Red Cross once again to be determined in the event of an officially declared weather emergency. So it appears there's not a formal government agency that directly governs this and this group has organized itself in order to create some. kind of organization that this can be regulated by. MR. HOBAN: This is a self created group that is made up of members of these of probably these various different organizations that are trying to.... MR. BULOT: Yes. It appears to be the Center for the Homeless, Dismiss House of South Bend, Hope Rescue Mission, Life Treatment Center, and Youth Service Bureau and also the YWCA. MR. HOBAN: I would just like to remind the Board we have three options here.