Residents of a small community in Montgomery County, Maryland, were built in the arms above a proposed drug rehabilitation group at home in a residential area next to a primary school.
During a community meeting on Monday evening, Brookeville families grew councilors on destination issues and the safety risks of the proposed location of the facility, which will share a real estate line with the Greenwood Elementary School.
Residents said they were blind because of the news and had no control over the case. They were concerned about possible safety problems for students because of the proximity of the facility.
“Taking a chance with our youngest and most vulnerable population in the residential district like this is a real risk and that is not a risk that someone wants to take in this audience,” a resident told councilor Dawn Ludtke, who represents the district.
Families from Maryland told the province’s leaders that they had safety problems about a proposed drug rehabilitation facility that was built next to a primary school. (Fox News Digital/Istock via Getty Images)
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A mother named Kim, who lives near Greenwood, confronted Ludtke and asked her to promise that her children would walk to school safely.
“I want you to look at him,” she said, pointing to her son. “What can you say to me with a straight face – you can look me in the eyes and guarantee his safety? You can go to sleep at night and be in order?”
Two properties in the Brookeville district were reportedly recently purchased by a single owner with the aim of converting them into a drug rehabilitation facility, known as ‘The Freedom Center’.
Residents who oppose the location of the facility started a petitionwho has collected more than 1,400 signatures to encourage the province to stop the opening.
“We are not against drug and alcohol rehabilitation facilities or the nature of their care. In fact, we hope that this issue gives attention and resources to addiction aid. The care is the location of this facility,” says the petition.
The proposed facility is said to share a ownership line with a local primary school. (Istock)
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Geno, a resident of Brookeville with three children who visit Greenwood, said Fox News Digital That the community wants the provincial council to consider sponsoring their proposed destination changes, which would create distance to facilities such as those that are built next to schools.
He believes that the owner of the properties has found a “Maas in the province’s zoning plans to be able to convert two properties, each keep eight patients at the same time, to” work physically and functionally as a single facility “.
The community has proposed destination reports to say that group houses must be at least half a mile away from schools, day cars or public playgrounds, or that properties used as group houses must be separated from each other by at least 1000 feet.
“This is a kind of softball for the county,” said Geno. “They are just afraid of being the one who makes decisions about their own code. This was never the original intention. But they are afraid to make a decision, and we need that.”
“I think everyone who sees this situation, you have four recesses from kindergarten playing on a lawn, separated by two extreme drug rehabilitation centers by a chain-link fence that goes forty meters and then opens to a hiking trail that comes to the school. This is outrageous.”
Greenwood Elementary Map with proposed facility for rehabilitation of medicines (Google Earth edited by Abby Bouleic)
The website of the Freedom Center says it is a level 3.5 treatment center. This level of treatment includes “High intensity programs for adults that cannot be treated outside a 24/7 facility due to severe physical or psychological problems or severe impulse control problems, or because they show dangerous symptoms that require 24-hour monitoring,” ” American addiction centers.
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The Freedom Center and Ludtke did not respond to a request for comments.
Ludtke Customs FOX5 DC Earlier this month: “I am aware of the concerns of the community and our office responds to questions about the destination and permit process for a private entity that strives for this project. The safety and security of students and educators is of the utmost importance for me,” she said.
