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Planning board recommends approval for Island Recovery treatment facility at 300 W. 89th Ave
Summary
The Town of Merrillville Planning Board voted to recommend approval of a special exception for Island Recovery, an inpatient substance-use and mental-health treatment facility that will offer medically monitored detox and a clinically managed residential program on a 5.57-acre C‑5 site. The board attached conditions limiting the approval to this petitioner and location.
The Town of Merrillville Planning Board on Tuesday recommended approval of a special exception to allow Island Recovery to operate an inpatient substance-use disorder and mental-health treatment facility at 300 West 89th Avenue.
Megan Stevens, a compliance consultant for petitioner Philip Weiss, told the board the proposed facility would include medically monitored detox care (typically three to seven days) and a clinically managed residential program (approximately 30 days). "We will be, looking to operate both a detox and residential program," Stevens said, adding that clients would…
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