Also see the attached letter from Chief Charlie Beck and a copy of Monday's Public Safety Committee Agenda. Meeting will be held Monday morning, December 10 at 9 a.m. City Hall, Room 340
Special Public Safety Committee Meeting on the Need to Advance Community Care Facilities Ordinance After Quadruple Homicide...
In response to the quadruple homicide at an unlicensed boarding house in Northridge, Councilmember Mitchell Englander is holding a special meeting on Monday, Dec. 10 of the Public Safety Committee he chairs, to discuss the need to advance his Community Care Facilities Ordinance (CCFO). Monday, Dec. 10. 9:00 am. City Hall, 200 N. Spring St. Council Chambers, 3rd Floor.
The tragic murder of four people on Dec. 2 at an unlicensed boarding house in a residential neighborhood of Northridge in Councilmember Englander’s District underscores the need to regulate such facilities. The home had up to a dozen people, some of them disabled, living in filthy, dangerous conditions, with doors and exits blocked, cramped rooms filled with dirty mattresses, urine and feces, and unsafe, unpermitted structures.
Councilmember Englander led development of the CCFO. It is common sense legislation, carefully crafted to not discriminate against any groups. It will enable licensed, well run group homes to continue providing their services. The CCFO will give the City the tools to ensure that vulnerable people including people with disabilities, seniors and Veterans are not victim to the overcrowded, unsafe and unsanitary conditions like those seen in the home where the quadruple homicide took place. Such conditions are common in unlicensed facilities.
It will also address the proliferation of unlicensed, illegal nuisance group homes and boarding facilities that have had a huge negative impact on single family neighborhoods across the City. It would regulate unlicensed facilities operating as businesses in residential areas with up to 50 people crammed into a single home, often without any supervision, programs or security, or adequate kitchen or bathroom facilities.
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