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Residents urge council not to restrict recovery homes; council to review ordinance at work session
Summary
Speakers at the public-comment period said proposed spacing and parking rules would discriminate against people in recovery and worsen homelessness; council-members said they will discuss repealing and reintroducing the ordinance after reviewing case law at a work session.
Several residents told the Altoona City Council during public comment that a proposed ordinance regulating recovery houses could discriminate against people in recovery and worsen homelessness.
"I'm a mother that lost. I watched my son suffer for many years and follow through a failed system," said Mary Ann Cenisi of Families United for Change, who urged the council to "open our hearts and our minds" and to…
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