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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I'm at least sympathetic to the fact that the SIS makes people uncomfortable and there's no reason to want them in your community specifically, but stuff like this that paints this behaviour as some common, everyday picture is why people think it's over the top.
I spend the better part of my day, 5-6 days a week, within 250m of the SIS. I'll be asked for a smoke or some change regularly, but outside of that not one of those situations has happened to me regardless of the time of day. Whether it's over my lunch hour, on a random break, after work, or after drinks in the area. Never been threatened, never come back to a broken into car, never had to call 911.
The strongest likelihood is that NONE of these things will happen to you. Hundreds of days and well over 100 late nights within 250m of the site, and I remain unscathed. Yet you suggest you experience it all in a weekend. Be honest.
If the picture you paint were true, the statistics would be significantly higher than they are. This is the issue with the "NIMBY" crowd. Not that you should love having the SIS in your community, because you shouldn't, it is in no way ideal for the average non-drug user to have that in their neighborhood, but that it's suddenly turned the area into some wasteland. It's bull####. Get some perspective.
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And just to be totally clear. The Beltline has always been a place for street-entrenched people to gather, use drugs/drink, solicit, panhandle...
I can remember calling the cops a few times because of things I witnessed from my balcony on 14th Ave and 5th Street.
People are acting like a bomb dropped.