Ability Housing plans for Springfield.

Started by sheclown, March 28, 2014, 05:55:07 PM

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strider

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April 08, 2014, 01:11:35 PM
Quote from: jaxbuilder on April 08, 2014, 11:03:08 AM
Springfield has so much potential and is a community ripe for all kinds of development. It is so sad to me to read about yet another transitional housing facility being forced on the residents of that community. The comments regarding the city not being able to stop Ability Housing are laughable. The City has absolute authority in approving or rejecting the zoning as commensurate with the intention of Historic Districts like Springfield. If this proposed facility was to be located adjacent to EverBank Field, Atlantic Beach or even San Marco Square it would not be permitted to go forward. Same zoning yet different outcome. I applaud Springfield for protecting their community and hope they prevail. Builders are hard pressed to invest capital into Springfield when the city continues to destroy property values with such ferocity. That is the very definition of poor city planning. Which translates into lower property values, lower property tax revenues and more blight for downtown Jacksonville.

The city has a responsibility to make and then enforce the laws they pass.  Everyone suffers if the city or anyone else can just up and decide to interpret the passed laws as they see fit for each instance that comes up. They must be equally interpreted and enforced across the board.  So, when the past president of SPAR, Mr Moulton,  publicly stated that it was OK to illegally rent rooms if you were renting to the right kind of people, was he right?  Is that the kind of law enforcement we want?  Because that is what you just asked the city to do.  Because you do not like the people Ability Housing will rent to, you want to interpret the law differently than if they were going to rent to Proton Patients, for instance.  That, in case you have forgotten, is against the law.  It is called discrimination and it invokes Federal Laws.

What is truly laughable is that the leaders of this issue against Ability Housing would be the first to call fowl if Ability Housing up and stated, no problem, we'll have 24 hour care there.  Because that would be illegal. What they have proposed it not.  Not illegal per zoning, not illegal per city ordinances, nor state and not even Federal law.  Causing a lawsuit over this issue against Ability Housing by trying to reinterpret the law is stepping on one's .....

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strider

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April 17, 2014, 08:02:22 AM
"And we will work to identify additional ways that Ability Housing can support Springfield's revitalization effort." 

As Ability Housing has close ties to LISC, this could be a positive for Springfield.
"My father says that almost the whole world is asleep. Everybody you know. Everybody you see. Everybody you talk to. He says that only a few people are awake and they live in a state of constant total amazement." Patrica, Joe VS the Volcano.
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