Editor,
I find it very encouraging to know that representatives from Moorlach’s and Harper’s office will be present for the meeting regarding rehab/sober living homes on Feb. 2. Changes need to happen at the state level in order for our city to have any control over the situation. An R-1 neighborhood should not be subjected to the constant activities of businesses such as these.
It’s common to see large commercial passenger vehicles coming and going, as many as a dozen employees coming and going, frequent deliveries, strangers wandering about, and then more new strangers in 30 days, not to mention the smoking and cigarette littering near high fire zones.
The city should have a say on where they locate on a case-by-case basis. In addition to considering nearby parks, schools, school bus stops, high fire areas, the ability for emergency vehicles to have ease of access without affecting arterial roadways, and parking accommodation requirements, the city should also be able to take into account some kind of an audible buffer zone.
In my neighborhood a number of families were subjected to all the sordid details overheard from outdoor and open-window therapy sessions; both nearby homes and homes across the canyon heard it all. Without city control the situation isn’t safe for the rehab residents or their neighbors.
Laurel Meister
Welcome to the nightmare that haunted Newport Beach’s Peninsula. Residential Rehab isn’t beneficial for the residents or the clients.
When Rehab homes create a hospital/therapy setting, where several houses on one street have been turned into a for profit business, they destroy the residential quality they sell in their brochures to vulnerable people all over the country.
Stop the madness, ask any addict who remains sober, either a REAL hospital setting or jail is what ultimately straightened them out.
Hoag Hospital has an in patient rehab clinic, drug and alcohol addiction is considered a disease and thus they disabled, wouldn’t a hospital’s therapy be far and away better for those in need of treatment?.
THIS IS WHAT IS GOING ON IN THESE REHABS AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THE STATE DOES NOTHING EVEN AFTER PEOPLE DIE:
http://www.toledoblade.com/Nation/2016/02/28/Murder-charges-against-rehab-center-a-first-in-California.html