Comments on: Drug and alcohol treatment facility slated to open in Columbia Heights, residents skeptical /2024/12/03/drug-and-alcohol-treatment-facility-slated-to-open-in-columbia-heights-residents-skeptical/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=drug-and-alcohol-treatment-facility-slated-to-open-in-columbia-heights-residents-skeptical DC Neighborhood Stories from American University Sat, 14 Dec 2024 15:29:08 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Richard Benson /2024/12/03/drug-and-alcohol-treatment-facility-slated-to-open-in-columbia-heights-residents-skeptical/#comment-16453 Sat, 14 Dec 2024 15:29:08 +0000 /?p=19931#comment-16453 More transparency is needed. I live two blocks down on Holmead Place and am already dealing with loitering and high a volume of package thefts. I would be willing to to pass out flyers and other materials to keep my neighbors and myself in the loop.

]]> By: Alex /2024/12/03/drug-and-alcohol-treatment-facility-slated-to-open-in-columbia-heights-residents-skeptical/#comment-16318 Wed, 11 Dec 2024 16:34:04 +0000 /?p=19931#comment-16318 Every concern the community has raised at either of these meetings (the first one was labeled as having a zoom option but no one on zoom could hear anything given DBH didn’t properly set up the necessary technology, by the way – you should ask them about that as most of the people couldn’t participate and couldn’t hear) has been dismissed by Jones or CM Nadeau.

Jones claiming they’ve engaged the community from the very beginning as laughable as Nadeau herself, at the meeting on Nov 25 (there should be a recording you can review), admitted that the community WASN’T engaged prior to the site selection and that she and the mayor made the decision unilaterally and it wasn’t until AFTER the site selection had been made was the community informed.

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