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Site of Courtenay homeless shelter opposed

Dear editor,

We oppose the site on Cliffe Avenue in downtown Courtenay as the site for a homeless emergency shelter.

The site’s proximity to the BC Liquor Store, the Tyee Marine Store, which sells guns and ammunition, the CIBC bank, which will be a likely site for nuisance panhandling, Shoppers Drug Mart, and the Dairy Queen, which would be a likely place for a daily hangout all make the site inappropriate.

Also, since the site proposed is on the busy, traffic-heavy main road into Courtenay, there would be obvious danger to the homeless congesting in this area. There are many other more suitable places for such a facility.

Sally and Det Kunz,

Courtenay

 



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