Homeless housing plans at Fort Lawton ruffle Magnolia residents
By Sanjay Bhatt
Seattle Times staff reporter
Many residents in Seattle's affluent Magnolia neighborhood are fuming over plans to house homeless people near Discovery Park at soon-to-be-closed Fort Lawton.
At one community meeting, some residents wondered whether homeless housing at the fort would attract wife-beaters, sex offenders and crack addicts. They rolled their eyes when city officials asserted that such housing increases property values. They worried about the impact on schools and scoffed at the idea of homeless people shopping at the closest grocery — which sells pheasant-and-rosemary pâté for $9.99 and ground coffee for up to $18 a pound.
"We're the ones who live here, and we want to have a nice, safe neighborhood to live in," Donald Raz, a King County deputy prosecutor and Magnolia resident, said later.
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It's okay to put these developments in YOUR neighborhood - but NEVER in the neighborhoods of these hypocrites. BTW - they want to take your money to pay for these developments. Rest assured that they will be spending their money to protect the endangered polar bear and the screech owl and loads of microbes that live in mud puddles.
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