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This week, Our Community host Candice Michel catches up with Brookings CORE Response Executive Director Diana Cooper, and chats about several of CORE’s projects, Winter Warming, the Warming Center, Project Turnkey, and a new project in the works, Street Medicine.
Hostt: Candice Michel; Guest: Brookings CORE Response Executive Director Diana Cooper; Producer: Candice Michel
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Have others seen this from the Brookings government website?
Posted on: April 17, 2023
St. Timothy Abatement Notice Issued
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“The City of Brookings issued a notice of abatement to St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church for being out of compliance with the municipal code and land use laws, including the benevolent meal services ordinance adopted by the City Council in October of 2021 and a variety of other social services, including an outreach clinic, a day program and an advocacy program. City officials have made every effort to work with St. Timothy’s to ensure they comply with the City’s municipal code. Unfortunately, St. Timothy’s continues to choose not to comply with multiple parts of the City’s code. Despite our best efforts, significant public safety problems remain at and surrounding St. Timothy’s, including impacts on neighbors, countless police calls, vandalism, property damage and other serious public safety concerns.” – Tony Baron, Public Works Director, City of Brookings
“ Background
In October 2021, the City of Brookings passed an ordinance that allowed benevolent meal services to be provided in residential zones through a conditional use permit. Prior to this ordinance, benevolent meal services were not allowed in residential zones at all, although they are allowed in other zones of the city. The City Council worked tirelessly with five other providers of benevolent meal services to create the ordinance and ensure this critical service is available to the community. All other providers have complied with the ordinance, except St. Timothy’s. St. Timothy’s continues to violate the ordinance. Additionally, St. Timothy’s has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in grants and funding in order to provide and added many social services to the point it is essentially a social service agency now, which is not permitted within residential areas, and which is causing serious public safety problems. It would be unfair and unjust to the City and its residents if the City’s code were only selectively enforced which is why a Notice of Abatement was issued to St. Timothy’s. “
This is from Tony Baron, City Planner
Yet, the city council and Baron appear to alter these rules whenever they choose for their friends and family. Dawson Tract residents are currently in our second round of LUBA (Oregon state Land Use Board of Appeals) hearings to appeal the city’s decision, under Tony Baron’s guidance, to give his friend and local contractor a Conditional Use Permit (CUP) to build an assisted living business in a residentially zoned area. They are allowing this by not calling this a business but a “home”, even though residents will be renting units. So , therefore it stands to reason that a church, which is allowed under a CUP, is still a “church” even if it provides some social services. Besides, really, don’t they all. That’s sort of the nature of a church—to provide service.
Denise Ortega
Brookings