
{"id":11482,"date":"2010-07-14T12:42:19","date_gmt":"2010-07-14T20:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=11482"},"modified":"2010-07-14T12:45:24","modified_gmt":"2010-07-14T20:45:24","slug":"shelters-too-concentrated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2010\/07\/14\/shelters-too-concentrated\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter: Shelters too concentrated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs. Coulter-James\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 recent editorial (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153More than shelter,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 6\/16\/10) failed to properly describe IFC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s project and also made invalid comparisons. The IFC-proposed shelter near Homestead Park is beside two large preschools, and McCreesh Place in Charlotte is not. IFC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s single men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s facility will take drunk and high men on 200 nights per year and discharge them at 7 a.m. each morning, and McCreesh Place does not. Charlotte\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s facilities appear to be able to serve all homeless clients, including sex offenders, and IFC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s facility cannot serve sex offenders, who comprise 20 percent of the homeless population in some cities, due to school proximity.<\/p>\n<p>IFC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s facility over-concentrates ALL overnight at-risk facilities in Orange County in one-fifth of a square mile around Homestead Park. Charlotte spreads its similar facilities out in accordance with its ordinance, which plainly states, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The public has an interest in assuring that a concentration of homeless shelters be minimized.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Coulter-James also failed to point out that both Charlotte and Chapel Hill are implementing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153business improvement districts\u00e2\u20ac\u009d like many other communities documented by the Department of Justice, where the very first step is to move homeless shelters out of downtown and away from where the jobs, shopping and eating are.<\/p>\n<p>Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s make honest comparisons and let facts guide our decision on IFC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s special-use permit.<\/p>\n<p>MARK PETERS<br \/>\n<em>Chapel Hill<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mrs. Coulter-James\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 recent editorial (\u00e2\u20ac\u0153More than shelter,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d 6\/16\/10) failed to properly describe IFC\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s project and also made invalid comparisons. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11482"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11486,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11482\/revisions\/11486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}