6/14/2023 0 Comments Project haven phoenix hotel![]() It was the city’s same Zoning Commission that sided with widespread neighborhood protest in 2021 and denied Pacific House permission to shelter the unhoused permanently in the Super 8 motel. Pacific House and the mayor’s homelessness task force were hoping that a lawsuit settlement between the city and the nonprofit would be approved by the city’s Zoning Commission last month. Dan Casagrande, an attorney defending Danbury against a lawsuit brought by Pacific House over the Super 8 motel debate, would only say that the lifting of the governor’s order left a picture that was “not clear.”īoth sides for months have been anticipating that Lamont would lift his emergency order and leave the former Super 8 motel in limbo, as was the case on Friday. Timothy Hollister, an attorney representing Pacific House, said he had no comment. ![]() Neither were lawyers for either side prepared on Friday to comment about the master plan moving forward or even the next step. Neither Mayor Dean Esposito nor Pacific House Executive Director Rafael Pagan returned calls seeking comment on Friday. I know Pacific House is working very hard to try to relocation these people." “I do not believe the mayor’s office is going to force people out of Pacific House immediately. “The real question is where to put 40 people residing at the Super 8, now that governor’s order has expired and they do not have the funding to keep them there,” said Ari Rosenberg, the executive director of the Danbury-based Association of Religious Communities and the vice chair of Danbury’s task force on homelessness. On Friday, there was no indication that anything was going to happen immediately at the former hotel near Interstate 84’s Exit 2, where a Stamford-based nonprofit called Pacific House has been servicing people experiencing homelessness since it bought the building with state money during the coronavirus crisis. “It has led to the demise of the area and created a safety risk to the adjacent residential development and hundreds of children who reside there.” To request this document in alternative format or for further information about this policy please contact: 60.“Since being converted to a homeless shelter the property and immediate surrounding area have experienced routine and regular trespassing, drug use, drug dealing, panhandling, public intoxication, crisis interventions, drug overdoses, assaults, sexual assaults, domestic disturbances, breach of peace, fights, and EMS and police calls,” wrote resident Benjamin Doto in his May 11 complaint to the city’s Zoning Enforcement Office. If you believe that you will not be able to understand or take part in a program or activity because of your disability, please let us know of your disability needs in advance if at all possible. It also means that the CASS will take any other reasonable action that allows you to take part in and understand a program or activity, including making reasonable changes to an activity. For example, this means that if necessary, CASS must provide sign language interpreters for people who are deaf, a wheelchair accessible location, or enlarged print materials. Auxiliary aids and services are available upon request to individuals with disabilities. The CASS must make a reasonable accommodation to allow a person with a disability to take part in a program, service, or activity. Para obtener este documento en otro formato u obtener información adicional sobre esta política, 60. To request this document in alternative format or for further information about this policy please contact: 60. It also means that CASS will take any other reasonable action that allows you to take part in and understand a program or activity, including making reasonable changes to an activity. Under Titles VI and VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI and VII) and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (ADA) Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, CASS prohibits discrimination in admissions, programs, services, activities or employment based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, and disability.ĬASS must make a reasonable accommodation to allow a person with a disability to take part in a program, service, or activity.
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