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1 Cheryl D. Xanthos From: Dan Nicolescu <[EMAIL REDACTED]> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2018 10:02 AM To: Sarah Pyle Cc: [EMAIL REDACTED] Subject: Bel-red homeless proposal (LAND-2016-01036) objection Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Hello, My name is Dan Nicolescu, I live at 1731 173rd Ave NE and I want to officially give my objections to the above- mentioned project. It is ridiculous to do this in a residential area, without the proper studies of the impact (crime, property values, visual appeal and so on) a and consent of the neighborhood. Here are some of my objections: - location is close to an elementary school. Kids are walking home in front of the location. -a hundred yards away there is a drug free zone, and if you ask me it should be extended to the whole neighborhood. What do they have in place to prevent the homeless for bringing drugs and drug related activities to our neighborhood? -the Interlake is also nearby and students run on 24th and 173 Rd on their jogging exercises. -how are they going to prevent homeless people from loitering in the neighborhood? -did anybody do any study on the impact in the houses prices such a shelter has on a neighborhood? -did anybody do any study on the impact in the crime rate accepted shelter bring? Believing there is no impact is delusional and or reckless. We don't want to bring homeless from nobody knows where in our neighborhood. People that own/control that church should get them at their home instead of dumping them in our neighborhood. Regards, Dan Nicolescu Get Outlook for Android Click here to report this email as spam. ---PAGE BREAK--- 1 Cheryl D. Xanthos From: Stefan Sharkansky <[EMAIL REDACTED]> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2018 4:54 PM To: Sarah Pyle Subject: Bel-Red Homeless Shelter Proposal Ms. Pyle My name is Stefan Sharkansky. I am the owner and resident of 1460 173rd Ave NE, Bellevue 98008. My home is approximately 1/2 mile from the site of the proposed Bel-Red Homeless Shelter LAND-2016--1-36. As a near neighbor of the proposed facility I object to its establishment. I wish to be considered a party of record to this proposal. The proposed shelter is a bad fit for our neighborhood. Among my concerns is that although the shelter is primarily described as a shelter for "women and children", it will also allow older male teenagers. Although the rules specify that residents over 18 must be attending school, and that there is a 9pm curfew for all residents. It is far from clear how either of these rules will be effectively enforced. I am concerned that an influx of poorly supervised transient adolescents from troubled families into the neighborhood may be disruptive, with a potential for criminal activity, and for nighttime use of the nearby Tam O'Shanter city park. Furthermore, since shelter residents would not be allowed to stay longer than 90 days, many may find themselves without any housing and simply camp out in the neighborhood including in city parks, or the woods surrounding the City of Redmond Viewpoint Open Space trail. In summary, we are a quiet single family neighborhood and not a suitable location to place a shelter for distressed transients. I strongly object to this proposal. Stefan Sharkansky, PhD [EMAIL REDACTED] mobile: (206) 484-6754 Click here to report this email as spam. ---PAGE BREAK--- 1 Cheryl D. Xanthos From: Hongthao Nguyen Sent: Monday, February 05, 2018 5:01 PM To: Sarah Pyle Cc: [EMAIL REDACTED] Subject: Creekside Homeless Shelter Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Dear Sara Pyle, We live on NE 17th place off of 173rd, and we are against the new homeless shelter you are planning to put in our residential area at the Creekside site. Our biggest concern is that there is between two Bellevue School District elementary schools, and that means there are a lot of children walking around this area. We believe that a homeless shelter at the Creekside site will raise safety issues for these students. We were told that St. Peters on the opposite side of the street hosted a homeless shelter for women and children, and that situation worked out, but there were men who were visiting their families at that site who caused problems. Hong Nguyen and Quan Le Click here to report this email as spam. ---PAGE BREAK--- 1 Cheryl D. Xanthos From: Clare Moe <[EMAIL REDACTED]> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2018 9:50 AM To: Sarah Pyle Subject: Homeless Family Resource Center and Shelter Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Good morning, I am a Redmond resident, and board member for Congregations for the Homeless and long time volunteer with Imagine Housing, and I am writing in favor of the family resource center and shelter being proposed for Redmond. The resources provided by this resource center and the extra shelter space on the Eastside is much needed for families experiencing homelessness. The Eastside has become an inhospitable place to anyone earning under the area median income and this is only one step toward creating a community for everyone. I cannot even begin to imagine the journey and life experiences of the people this resource will serve and am glad to hear that our community is stepping up to help. Sincerely, Clare Clare Moe [EMAIL REDACTED] Click here to report this email as spam. ---PAGE BREAK--- 1 Cheryl D. Xanthos From: Dorine Rassaian <[EMAIL REDACTED]> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2018 5:57 PM To: Sarah Pyle Cc: [EMAIL REDACTED] Subject: Land 2016 01036 I Objection to BelRed Shelter Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged This project lacks a study demonstrating how the church plans to mitigate the transportation, safety and social risks. Temporary housing in this community doesn’t represent a long term solution and represents a financial and SIGNIFICANT safety risk. We believe the equity of our homes will be impacted by over 10%, which our community would be happy to demonstrate in court if this initiative continues to move forward. Dorine Rassaian 17345 NE 17th Pl Bellevue, Wa 98008 ---PAGE BREAK--- 1 Cheryl D. Xanthos From: Dorine Rassaian <[EMAIL REDACTED]> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2018 4:59 PM To: Sarah Pyle Cc: [EMAIL REDACTED] Subject: Land 2016 01026 I Objection to shelter on belred This project lacks a study demonstrating how the church plans to mitigate the transportation, safety and social risks. Temporary housing in this community doesn’t represent a long term solution and represents a financial and SIGNIFICANT safety risk. We believe the equity of our homes will be impacted by over 10%, which our community would be happy to demonstrate in court if this initiative continues to move forward. Dorine Rassaian ---PAGE BREAK--- 1 Cheryl D. Xanthos From: [EMAIL REDACTED] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2018 9:33 AM To: Sarah Pyle Subject: Party of record to Bel-Red Homeless Shelter Proposal (LAND-2016-01036) Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Hi Sara, I am Ludovic Tirtiaux, a neighborhood resident living at 2045 173rd Ave NE, Redmond, which is very close to the project location. I would like to be a party of record to the Bel‐Red Homeless Shelter Proposal (LAND‐2016‐01036). I object to this project as I see it as a very bad fit for the neighborhood. Sincerely, Ludovic Tirtiaux ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- 1 Cheryl D. Xanthos From: Lin <[EMAIL REDACTED]> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2018 7:28 PM To: Sarah Pyle Subject: RE: LAND-2016-01036 Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Thanks to reply back my email. My name is Linju Chang, address is 1853 173rd Ave, NE Bellevue WA 98008. One house left is Redmond. My son also life in Redmond on 176 Ave. Linju From: Sarah Pyle [mailto:[EMAIL REDACTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2018 2:19 PM To: Lin Subject: RE: LAND-2016-01036 Thank you for your comment and e‐mail. Your comment will be included in the record for the Hearing Examiner this evening at 6PM. If you included your mailing address and name you will also be added to the Party of Records list and will be notified of any decisions, made on the application, LAND‐2016‐01036. Responses to previous public comments: http://www.redmond.gov/common/pages/UserFile.aspx?fileId=215768 Responses to neighborhood meeting questions: http://www.redmond.gov/common/pages/UserFile.aspx?fileId=216778 Project documents and information: http://www.redmond.gov/cms/One.aspx?portalId=169&pageId=222796 Thank you and please feel free to contact me with any additional questions. Sarah Pyle From: Lin [mailto:[EMAIL REDACTED]] Sent: Monday, February 05, 2018 1:11 PM To: Sarah Pyle <[EMAIL REDACTED]> Subject: LAND‐2016‐01036 Sara Pyle: We are concern about the LAND‐2016‐01036 project. Why the residential area will become Homeless Shelter? Our area is single family residential zone. The area has a lot of senior and children. Please reconsider this project. We vote against this object. ---PAGE BREAK--- 2 Chang’s family Click here to report this email as spam. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com ---PAGE BREAK--- 1 Cheryl D. Xanthos From: Lana Kim <[EMAIL REDACTED]> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2018 5:15 PM To: Sarah Pyle Cc: [EMAIL REDACTED] Subject: Re: Object to Bel-Red Homeless Shelter proposal (LAND-2016-01036) Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Hello Sorry i forgot to add my address... 2523 174th Ave NE Redmond WA 98052 Please add to the objection list Thank you Lana Kim Get Outlook for Android From: Lana Kim Sent: Monday, February 5, 4:52 PM Subject: Object to Bel-Red Homeless Shelter proposal (LAND-2016-01036) To: [EMAIL REDACTED] Cc: [EMAIL REDACTED] Hello I'm a neighborhood resident and object to those project as a bad fit for our community and neighborhood. Please note my objection to this project. Thank you Lana Kim Get Outlook for Android ---PAGE BREAK--- 2 Click here to report this email as spam. ---PAGE BREAK--- 1 Cheryl D. Xanthos From: li li <[EMAIL REDACTED]> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2018 5:55 PM To: Sarah Pyle Subject: Re: Objection to proposal LAND-2016-01036 Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Thanks, Sarah. The below is my address and name: Li Li 17408 NE 20th CT, Redmond, WA, 98052 From: Sarah Pyle <[EMAIL REDACTED]> Sent: Monday, February 5, 2018 11:48 AM To: li li Cc: Sarah Pyle Subject: RE: Objection to proposal LAND‐2016‐01036 Hi Li Li. Thank you for your comment and e‐mail. Your comment will be included in the record for the Hearing Examiner this evening at 6PM. If you included your mailing address and name you will also be added to the Party of Records list and will be notified of any decisions, made on the application, LAND‐2016‐01036. Responses to previous public comments: http://www.redmond.gov/common/pages/UserFile.aspx?fileId=215768 Responses to neighborhood meeting questions: http://www.redmond.gov/common/pages/UserFile.aspx?fileId=216778 Project documents and information: http://www.redmond.gov/cms/One.aspx?portalId=169&pageId=222796 Thank you and please feel free to contact me with any additional questions. Sarah Pyle From: li li [mailto:[EMAIL REDACTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2018 10:54 PM To: Sarah Pyle <[EMAIL REDACTED]> Subject: Objection to proposal LAND‐2016‐01036 ---PAGE BREAK--- 2 Hi Sara, This is Li Li, a resident living on 173rd and 24th Street. I had already sent my concern and objection to proposal LAND‐2016‐01036 with a written letter to Redmond city several months ago. I have huge concern about my neighborhood safety of bringing homeless to my neighborhood without any planning for the potential negative impact on my neighborhood. So far, I didn't hear anything back from Redmond city. Today, I got to know that the proposal continued pushing forward without any updating to its direct impacted neighborhood. To me, the way to handle this proposal is unacceptable. I strongly urged Redmond City make sure the proposal would not proceed without listening and address all concerns from its impacted neighborhoods properly. Click here to report this email as spam. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com ---PAGE BREAK--- 1 Cheryl D. Xanthos From: Veronika Ruzin <[EMAIL REDACTED]> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2018 11:00 PM To: Sarah Pyle Subject: RE: Objection to the Bel-Red Homeless Shelter proposal (LAND-2016-01036). Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Veronika Ruzin : 3036 173 ct ne Redmond WA 98052. From: Sarah Pyle <[EMAIL REDACTED]> Sent: Monday, February 5, 2018 11:06 AM To: Veronika Ruzin <[EMAIL REDACTED]> Cc: Sarah Pyle <[EMAIL REDACTED]> Subject: RE: Objection to the Bel‐Red Homeless Shelter proposal (LAND‐2016‐01036). Thank you for your comment and e‐mail. Your comment will be included in the record for the Hearing Examiner this evening at 6PM. If you included your mailing address and name you will also be added to the Party of Records list and will be notified of any decisions, made on the application, LAND‐2016‐01036. Responses to previous public comments: http://www.redmond.gov/common/pages/UserFile.aspx?fileId=215768 Responses to neighborhood meeting questions: http://www.redmond.gov/common/pages/UserFile.aspx?fileId=216778 Project documents and information: http://www.redmond.gov/cms/One.aspx?portalId=169&pageId=222796 Thank you and please feel free to contact me with any additional questions. Sarah Pyle From: Veronika Ruzin [mailto:[EMAIL REDACTED]] Sent: Sunday, February 04, 2018 5:45 PM ---PAGE BREAK--- 2 To: Sarah Pyle <[EMAIL REDACTED]> Subject: Objection to the Bel‐Red Homeless Shelter proposal (LAND‐2016‐01036). Me and my family very concern and are objecting the Bel-Red Homeless Shelter proposal (LAND-2016- 01036). This proposal lacking basic commitments to improve both life’s of homeless people in need and shows gross disregard to life of residence that surround this area. Click here to report this email as spam. This message has been scanned for malware by Websense. www.websense.com ---PAGE BREAK--- 1 Cheryl D. Xanthos From: Giles van der Bogert <[EMAIL REDACTED]> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2018 6:02 PM To: Sarah Pyle Cc: Nicole van der Bogert Subject: Re: Objection to site proposal (LAND-2016-01036) for 2321 173rd Ave NE Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged I saw in your out of office message that in addition to our mailing address, you also need our full names: Giles van der Bogert Nicole van der Bogert On Feb 5, 2018 4:38 PM, "Giles van der Bogert" <[EMAIL REDACTED]> wrote: We'd like to be a party of record, voicing our objection to the proposed homeless shelter at 2321 173rd Ave NE. Assisting homeless people through the transition from homelessness to acquiring and retaining stable, self sufficient, long term housing for themselves is not a casual undertaking. This is precisely what government is for; driving progress against social issues with data driven measures against formally defined and scientifically justified city, regional, and state level policy. Merely providing temporary housing is not a sound plan. Many homeless have suffered physical or abuse and need counseling services. Many are struggling with substance abuse and need medically sound intervention. Some may have settled into a worldview where crime, originally perhaps to be viewed as a necessary evil to survive, has become an acceptable way of life. This proposed shelter is simply not prepared to offer the necessary level of service and therefore is not prepared to materially affect outcomes for these people. It may be that the site managers have "promised" that their policies will address these shortcomings, but without a legally binding commitment, e.g. to conform to a legislatively defined regulatory mechanism, this site cannot guarantee that it will not simply serve to funnel at-risk individuals into our, as of today, purely residential neighborhood. And when the site managers decide to end temporary housing services for a given individual? Unless there is a legally binding requirement that the individual be returned to their place of origin, which itself would hardly be humane, we must expect that they will take up residence in those nearby areas that would be the most sensible to them, adjacent and nearby wooded parks. Our neighborhood parks are nicely wooded, and would provide ideal privacy for homeless who had nowhere else to go, after the proposed site failed to actually get them back on their feet. But those are the same parks our neighborhood's children play in. And the proposed site is along the route our neighborhood's children use to walk or bike to and from school. Knowing that the site managers are not obligated to provide the full array of services the recipients will need and that therefore there will necessarily be some degradation of safety in our neighborhood, whether large or small, it would irreparably alter the character of our neighborhood to know that our children biking to school or playing in our cul-de-sacs were not as safe as they could or should have been. Combined with the unfortunate reality that some percentage of homeless would rather commit a petty crime to achieve the shelter afforded by some jail time than be forced to return to living without a roof over their head, we must assume that such crimes will be perpetrated, at some nonzero background rate, in our neighborhood as the end of temporary housing approaches for a subset of desperate individuals. If someone has to choose between living in, say, Ardmore Park, or breaking a window to earn some time in jail, everybody loses. ---PAGE BREAK--- 2 Allowing a non-government facility that lacks the ability to provide the necessary end-to-end services to ensure positive outcomes for recipients to open in our residential neighborhood is simply not appropriate for our neighborhood nor helpful for the homeless would be under-served by this proposal. This proposal is bad for our neighborhood, however well intentioned it may be. Thank you for your time, Giles & Nicole Owners & residents of 17416 NE 20th Ct, Redmond Click here to report this email as spam. ---PAGE BREAK--- 1 Cheryl D. Xanthos From: Clare Moe <[EMAIL REDACTED]> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2018 6:17 PM To: Sarah Pyle Subject: Support of Shelter Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged I am a Redmond resident, and board member for Congregations for the Homeless and long time volunteer with Imagine Housing, and I am writing in favor of the family resource center and shelter being proposed for Redmond. The resources provided by this resource center and the extra shelter space on the Eastside is much needed for families experiencing homelessness. The Eastside has become an inhospitable place to anyone earning under the area median income and this is only one step toward creating a community for everyone. I cannot even begin to imagine the journey and life experiences of the people this resource will serve and am glad to hear that our community is stepping up to help. Sincerely, Clare Clare Moe [EMAIL REDACTED] ---PAGE BREAK--- 1 Cheryl D. Xanthos From: Tim Alexander <[EMAIL REDACTED]> Sent: Monday, February 05, 2018 8:00 PM To: Sarah Pyle Cc: Tim Alexander Subject: Video and photo of parking during Sunday service. Attachments: IMG_0317.MOV Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Flagged Sarah, I’m sending this at the request of the Examiner. These were taken on the past Sunday during church service. The church parking lot is at near capacity... only a few spaces available. The street is full and Creekside church attendees are using the lot in front of the proposed shelter for overflow. Note that when the fence is built, the parking in front of the shelter is going to be significantly impacted. ---PAGE BREAK--- 2 ---PAGE BREAK--- 3 ---PAGE BREAK--- 4 You should receive 2 photos which are duplicate (sorry for the duplicate) and an attached video of the street. Thanks, Tim Click here to report this email as spam.