Mar Vista seems to be the cruelest Los Angeles neighborhood of the day. The hostile Mar Visa residents organized a community meeting last month to make clear that a five-bedroom group home for people with depression, severe anxiety, and emotional trauma "would not receive a warm welcome to the neighborhood,'' reports the Argonaut.
According to L.A. Curbed, a group in the area apparently "has become increasingly vocal'' about the fact that they believe that the use their cars with ease is more important than the lives and treatment of their fellow human beings, or "that a proliferation of recovery-oriented living facilities could devalues single-family homes and exacerbate traffic and parking woes.'' However they want to put it.
Mar Vista residents are sick of their neighborhood being overrun by treatment facilities, which include "a therapeutic community for female military veterans dealing with trauma-related issues that sometimes involve substance abuse.'' They're horrified by such a thing! "Are we all going to have neighbors like this for the rest of our lives?" one resident huffed.
Argonaut added that angry Mar Vista homeowners say their neighborhood is being overrun by sober living homes. Worried about the building of residential care facilities in their community, Mar Visa residents are voicing strenuous objection to the construction of a group home for patients of a treatment center for depression, anxiety, and other psychological afflictions.
On August 18, there were more than 100 people, some sitting on the floor or standing against the walls, packed into a classroom at Wildwood School to say in no uncertain terms that the ongoing five-bedroom home on the 11900 block of Victoria Avenue (near Inglewood Boulevard) would not receive a warm welcome to the neighborhood.
Mar Vista homeowners have become increasingly vocal about concerns that a proliferation of recovery-oriented living facilities could devalue single-family homes and exacerbate traffic and parking woes.