Citizens against PADS Shelter Location in Park Ridge IL

We the citizens of Park Ridge, disagree with the City of Park Ridge to allow St Mary's Episcopal Church to open a P.A.D.S. Shelter.
Reasons include:

• Residential and high traffic pedestrian location, close to Up Town...
  
• Large number of children living and playing in the 10 bock sq. area...
  
  
• Children walk to & from two schools in front of St. Marys...
  
• Early Morning and Evening School Programs, Children walk to...
  
  
• No Parking lot for homeless sleeping in their cars...
  
• There are little to no homeless in Park Ridge...
  
• Homeless will have to be taken out of their environment and... transported to Pk Ridge...
  
• Unfair for the Homeless to be shuffled
  
  
• Lack of counseling for specific problems
  
  
• No Street lights for citizen security
  
• No lights in alleys which are wide and very active with pedestrians
  
  
• St Mays is very small and will not be able to handle overflow
  
• Businesses will be subject to homeless panhandling and disturbances like homeless sitting on the UP Town benches eating there bag lunches.
  
  
• Park Ridge Citizens will avoid shopping uptown and going to the theater
  
• P.A.D.S. locations are placed in areas where homeless is prevalent and industrial type areas
  
  
• <!--[endif]-->50% of the homeless have spent time in jail
  
• 24% have been in prison
  
•  <!--[endif]-->Homeless account for 10% to 35.4% of all arrests
  
• <!--[endif]-->Sex Offenders reside (unregistered) and use shelters to avoid Megan%u2019s law
  
• <!--[endif]-->57%have mental health problems
  
• <!--[endif]-->Local Police are called on a regular basis to PADS and make arrests
  
• PADS funding request from the city of Elgin for $50,000.00, plus an additional $30,000.00 annually for additional staff
  
• Elgin passed a tax increase to meet the funding dollars
  
• The Park Ridge Ministry has admitted no experience with shelters
  
• The Park Ridge Ministry and the City of Park Ridge have not ask citizen for input