NISKAYUNA Handicap home town disputed has 5 residents State now operates Pine Ridge site BY STEVEN COOK Gazette Reporter Reach Gazette reporter Steven Cook at 395-3122 or scook@dailygazette.com.
A group home that the town tried to block, recently opened its doors after the town lost its bid and extensive renovations were made, state offi cials said. The group home is on Pine Ridge Road in Niskayuna. The plan concerned town officials who argued there were already too many group homes in the town. That oversaturation would change the nature and character of the neighborhood, the town argued then. Six homes were within one mile of the Pine Ridge Road site, the town pointed out. One home, on Glenmeadow Court, was only two streets, or just over a half-mile, away. Asked this week about the home’s opening, town Supervisor Joe Landry said officials had exhausted all avenues, and had lost at an administrative hearing. As far as the town’s concerns, Landry said, it’s too early to tell if they will prove valid. The home was purchased and renovated by the state Offi ce for People with Developmental Disabilities at a total cost of $372,742, agency officials said. That cost is made up of the $254,900 purchase price and the $117,842 spent on renovations, including reconfi guring interior spaces, plumbing, electrical and mechanical. A sprinkler system was also installed. Materials containing asbestos were removed. There was outdoor deck work and other minor site work, agency spokeswoman Nicole Weinstein said in an e-mail response. The home is to have a total of six residents. Five men have already moved in, with a sixth expected to move in soon, she said. The home move was forced by rising crime around the former site on Bradley Street in Schenectady, state offi cials said in 2008. ....................>>>>............................>>>>.................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r01201&AppName=1
Kind and caring liberals want care for all disabled people-just not in their neighborhoods.
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The home move was forced by rising crime around the former site on Bradley Street in Schenectady, state offi cials said in 2008.
I found it alarming that they had to move this home because of the increase in crime in the city. Let's not handle the crime........let's just move 'em out!!! Everyone is fleeing the city!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
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