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San Martin residents, advisory committee raise alarm about clustering of mental‑health residential facilities
Summary
During public comment and the San Martin Planning Advisory Committee report, residents urged county action on an apparent surge of for‑profit mental‑health residential facilities clustered near homes in San Martin and asked for changes to zoning, notification and saturation limits.
Public comment and an advisory committee report at the Santa Clara County Planning Commission’s March 27 meeting highlighted community concern in San Martin about what speakers described as a rapid increase in for‑profit residential mental‑health facilities.
Sarah Kuitrignelli, who identified herself as a resident of Amari Court in San Martin, told the commission she and neighbors live on a cul‑de‑sac of six homes and that the number of mental‑health residential facilities near her property had grown from two in February 2022 to eight at the time of her remarks. She said six of the facilities were within…
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