I'm running for 10

[Skot David Wilson]

Joan, I do respect the view, but don't agree. No one in the world needs 300 square feet per person. 100 sq ft, a 10 by 10 area per person, is more than fine, and the overlay should equally apply to private homes, because to apply it to "those" businesses is to create and use law to remove them.
Now I agree about boarding houses, because they were and are used as crack houses and attract a bad element.
My entire point is that they are grandfathered in, were there first, and as such have a right to exist as they have been for years, all nicely licensened and regulated and in compliance with the State.
I don't agree that any new halfway houses should start up, and if they have been running before the overlay was implemented but not fully legal, then they should be allowed to meet the same requirements of those grandfathered... but new places or places since the overlay, no...

I apply this rule also to Craig Field... those people were given a promise and had an expectation, and that "right" to not have the field extended is grandfathered in..... 
It applies to signs on businesses... if they don't comply with new law but were there before the law, they have a right to continue as they have, but if the property or business changes, then the new law applies.

I also see residents fighting to impose the overlay and who are "oh so concerned" about it because they know if they can apply it they can remove these halfway houses....
That is clear, and it would be insulting to suggest otherwise.
All of Springfield who have moved in knowing that these places were there accepted them when they moved in, so to try to force them out is simply being a bully and using the law to do the dirty work.
If they were there before the law, then the law should not apply to them, period.
I feel just as strongly about domain seizures of property for the "public good" that generates profits for developers and realtors.
So those ones who you say are profit hounds and illegal, if they are a problem they do need to go, but for the ones who do a good job and have for years, the same way with few problems, those people have the right to stay no matter how much money some home renovators have sunk into their "adopted" neighborhood.
The overlay isn't bad, but the application of it upon those who have grandfathered rights is.
And, yes, I think 300 is unreasonable. I could see 125 or 150, but not 300 or even 200.

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