A comment that fell through the cracks

This comment from earlier Monday ended up in a spam basket for some reason. The commenter, who identified himself as “hapollock” focused on the Altadena Clown house, its operators and other such homes in and around East Pasadena. So, here goes:

This company has other properties in the area. At 50 North Quigley, they bought a house under the pretense of opening a shelter for battered women, then under the pretense of being used as a single family residence. Ultimately, they opened another house for child rapists and other deviants just like the one recently closed in Altadena. The place on North Quigley is next door to a family with children and across the street from our house with three children. Over the coures of a year, there has been more than a 200% turnover in inmates, as they have had to be rearrested for diverse offenses. This facility is a direct danger to the children of our neighborhood. It is astounding and reprehensible that this business, “New Beginnings for Sober Living” that creates such a danger to the public is allowed to exist.

And indeed, our public officials have had little interest.

For example, there is a motel nearby at 3800 Colorado Blvd, which has also been used to house the rapists, and also been a site of much prostitution, which has now come up for renewal of its 40 year zoning variance. In spite of the long record of trouble, the County Planning Commission not has been eager to refuse the renewal, as in the words of Commissioner Leslie Bellamy “it would not be right to have the owner lose money invested in this property,” not withstanding the investor is not even a resident of the County, and has been profiting through the operation of this center of rapists and prostitution for the past three years.

Although Commissioner Pat Modugno and Commissioner Wayne Rew have been sympathetic to our need to have these hazards removed from our community, they are essentially alone as public officials who are willing to support us with more than lip service.

The general complacency of our elected officials in this matter is beyond understanding. The housing of the convicted child rapists and other sexual deviants in close proximity to children is a repungent practice that creates a grave danger to children and to our community.

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