09-28-09 Common Council Meeting Agenda & Packet

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Area Board of Zoning Appeals -September 2, 2009 management banking. I don't think we have time to go into the number of various number of judgment liens and other court issues that these principles have all been involved in, almost everyone of them has had issues with the court system. And so for them to sit here and say that this is an altruistic motive, I do not believe them. The location of this group home is on a cul-de-sac. A quiet cul-de-sac at the end of a dead end road. At the open house they indicated all these people would be coming and even today by their own testimony they said, "well we're going to be driving them to school". "They're going to have individual therapy". Well there's two people they say living in the house, only two people. So I don't know what they're going to do with 8 girls, with two people driving. Some of them driving to therapy during part of the time, leaving the girls at home. Mr. Newell staying at home while Mrs. Brimmer takes them. They have no plan. This is quite frankly all smoking mirrors. They're only doing this in our opinion as a money making venture. We are working with the State to see if we can identify issues that haven't even been brought forward here yet today. We're not against group homes. We're not against social service facilities. As I said we have these in the neighborhood. What we are against is this location. This location was picked for whatever reason as weekend get away but they've owned it for three years and they've done nothing but leave it neglectfully and they violate at least three different ordinances of the City and that doesn't tell me that they good people in running this use. And you cannot separate the use of the property by those petitioners, those owners. What's interesting is the petition says that it is going to be owned by Pedro, Lashon and Veronica, but the title which you have a copy of is owned Pedro, Lashon and Mrs. Gurrola mentioned that as well, is owned by them. The facts don't seem to make sense. They just seem to make up the facts depending on what they're trying to accomplish. The first petition said they were going to have two girls that would need medical treatment. When they found out they couldn't do that under the City ordinance, they decided to get rid of those two girls that need medical treatment instead they're just going to girls who say don't have suicidal tendencies, no gang affiliations, who can test them. Well there's no independent verification. The Hope House that they setup are going to be the same ones that are going to test and interview these girls to see if they're going to take them. Are you going to tell me that Mr. Hines and Ms. Gurrola and Mr. Gurrola are going to say no, we're not going to accept this girl? They setup the organization for that very purpose to accept these girls. There is no independent verification. There's no doubt that approval of this petition would be injurious to the public welfare and moral standards of this community. To let these petitioners who have violated City ordinances, who have sometimes even failed to show for the hearings, would be allowed to run this home. There's also no doubt that the way that they have dealt with this property as owners since 2006 or early 2007, would not be injurious to the property values of the adjacent neighbors. It's obvious. If you look in your book you can see the list of various code violations, not once but twice. And the time before it also shows that liens were filed with respect to those cleanup orders and they're still on the books. It's the burden of the petitioner to persuade this Board and I don't they've done that. I don't think they've given you any indication, any evidence that this would not be injurious to the community welfare, to the community health and safety or the morals of the community and they certainly haven't given any indication as to these other issues which we have raised, they never even addressed that. Even the fact that they've provided letters signed by tenants without identifying that that is a tenant of theirs. We respectfully request that this Board send this to the Council with an unfavorable recommendation and if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them at this time. MR. URBANSKI: Steve, I have one question. There was a seal notice on the house dated 06, 11-13-07, the vacate and seal immediately. Is that been released? 22