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Residents press La Mesa council on alleged unlicensed group home and recurring garden water outages

La Mesa City Council · March 10, 2026
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Summary

At public comment, residents urged the council to investigate a purported unlicensed drug-recovery home and a youth group home on Bellflower Drive and asked staff to restore reliable water service to the La Mesa Community Garden, citing long-running outages.

Residents at the March 10 meeting raised two neighborhood issues: an alleged unlicensed recovery home on Bellflower Drive and chronic water outages at the La Mesa Community Garden.

Barbie Wheeler, speaking for residents on Bellflower Drive, said a property operated by Richard Evans advertised a drug-recovery program without appropriate licensing; she told council the…

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