02-09-09 Common Council Meeting Agenda & Packet

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Board of Zoning Appeals - ,lantlarV 1. 5, 2009 beds btcen the dente • for the I homeless rand Hope fescue Mission. Let me tl and explain to you what that ' homeless bed for ever , people in Indianapolis, There's one homeless bcd for ever 3,428 � T`l�e� s o � ' , � ther e's ho meless fed �� peop in Fort Way There's zeros beds for homeless i Gary. A there s one ho .. ns in South Bend. Iron - i where l stand that's a fa'lure of government, And l ask that you try eery �� citizens F he neig hborhoods of oath T end - from be comi.11g, �e got enure e erywhere and it's just not a and keep t good situation. , MR, HOBA - I believe we have a comment from area Plan? ' Wh ich is what I believe Mr. 11offman was started with the legal question, reading ahead to the Area Plans comments, correct? MR, HOFFMAN: "That's correct. MS, NAYDER: We us ed the term weather amncst y because that's what was used in the petition. C huck may h ave some documentation on what that is. I guess l don't care what you call it, applyin for a group residence, ' a group resi o cou become much more full fledged than just overnight stays and we just wafted to try and tie it down to the o v ern ight ht sta s verses a full fledg group residence. So if weather am n sty isn't the right tern., maybe e an lo ok into elan i that. Also artcd to say it I the Area Plan Commission for the F meeting for e onin and after that g o on to the City Council o it will lave to e su.j e t to the r rezoning as well. MR. I o N : C huck. MI. BUf,oT. We Nverc j ust recently handed some information concerning the eather related care for homeless peo It appears that this group, the St. Joseph Co ty Homeless ontin u n Care i an homel pp g ' - ing to help super the care of homeless people in the City and they have a plan here organization that �s trying p p � � k Bather a��et indicates a men's plan and a omens and chi ren s plan, The men's plan includes a � that p e cnt r for the Homeless with 2 beds. Hope Ministry, 10 beds not a allable tilI that begins at p.�a�. 1n the . mid No Life T reatment t Center's 5 to 7 beefs. recd C ross to be determined and that would be in the ' event of an of declared weather emerg And then they have a women and children's plan which weather a mnesty that beg ins at 8 p.m. at the Y WCA, u p to lour families or eight single ,roe en depending on ' the a The Ce nter for the Homeless two families and ten single women. . ife Treatment Center 5 to the Red Cross once a to be determined in the �vcnt o an officially declare 7 single wo�T�cr�. And then g r - ears there' not for g al o� erinnent agency that directly go erns this and this - we at her e m erg e ncy, �o �t app g . group l�.a organized itself' in order to create some- bind of organization that th can 'be regulated by. � created ro� that is made, u of members of these of probably these various ICI.. llol =nA. T'l�zs F �s a self c�c a � }? I? di ff er ent or ganizations that ar trying .to . . ' Yes. It a cars to e the Center for the o el ss, Dismiss House f South B(,nd, Hope I II , LOT. app oars Mission Life Treatment Center, and Youth Service Bureau and also tho YWCA.. MR. IJO AA: I would Just life to remind the Board we have three options here.