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Drug rehab site approved in southeast
| Tuesday, May 13 2008 7:09 PM
Last Updated: Wednesday, May 14 2008 7:34 AM
City officials and members of the public can agree about two things concerning rehab facilities: They serve valuable roles in the community, and they are often hard to place.
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The Board of Zoning Adjustment voted Tuesday to approve Isaiah Crompton’s request to convert a home on Clarendon Street to a residential treatment site for men. The southeast Bakersfield facility will have 10 clients, not 14 as originally requested.
The approval went against the city Planning Department’s recommendation. Planners were concerned about dropping parking from 13 spaces to three spaces and how the neighborhood would be affected by having two rehab sites next to each other.
Comments in support of Crompton’s request seemed to impress the three-member board. Several speakers said they are sober thanks to Crompton’s help.
The Rev. Josephate Jordan told board members that cars are a luxury that most drug addicts, and those in recovery, don’t have.
Parking was an issue at a second rehab site, Legacy Behavioral Services, in downtown Bakersfield. It asked for permission to drop the amount of off-street parking spaces it would have to provide from 48 to 10. But that matter was postponed to June because the reduction struck board members as too drastic.
Martin Hansen, Legacy’s president and chief executive officer, said he wants to be a good neighbor and is willing to work with city planners to come up the “magic number” for parking stalls.
The facility, near F and 21st streets, is proposing building a two-story, state-licensed home for men undergoing alcohol and drug rehab.
In other business, the board approved:
• A permit requested by the city of Bakersfield for a fire station in the southwest, on Mountain Vista Drive and Harris Road.
• Greenlawn Southwest Mortuary Cemetery and Crematory’s permit to expand operations on its 60-acre site.
• Developer Lee Jamieson’s request to keep 242 storage containers behind the Target store in the Northwest Promenade. Two boxes would be kept on the property permanently, and the board asked Jamieson to provide fencing so they aren’t visible to the public. He agreed. The remaining 240 would be used for two years and then moved off-site.