The item before you is for an emergency shelter located at 2011 Pillsbury Avenue. Again, that request is a congregate living use emergency shelter with 65 beds. And this requires a conditional use permit to allow that in the UN3 urban neighborhood district.

This is going to be a much different model. It's going to focus on the family. We are bringing in group style counseling that will help the families from what they've been through while addressing some of the needs of the children, because it's much bigger than we just find a way to get them into their next place to start over.

I'm living proof that it does work. It It is a program that works. I mean, I'm grateful to be there. I mean, I don't know what I do without Steps of Strategy. It's a really good place to But it's uh I am getting housed through them here within a month. I'm going to the Helix program. Um I've been approved, so it is a good program. Thank you.

I would actually contend that this CUP application doesn't satisfy any of the six requirements. I will note I support their cause um and I support the goals, but it seems like this particular neighborhood is being targeted in the sense that a shelter just went in from Alliance, who is the previous owner of this property, and shut it down in 2025 because they did not have adequate plans for uh policing to deal with the drug usage and at that time they only had 27 beds.

I think for me, the thing that feels really pressing in this moment is the fact that we have uh shelter all family system, and it is consistently over capacity. And that is just dangerous for community members that are trying to build their family, right?

I want to highlight um the description um from the staff that the structure was constructed in 1906 as a rooming house with 24 rooms. Extensive permit history demonstrates this structure has been utilized as single room occupancy, boarding lodging, and similar uses since it was originally constructed.

So, for the first proposed change, we are proposing to allow 6-ft tall fences to be constructed up to the front wall of the home. Um so, currently, what you are allowed to build in a corner side yard um and so, to clarify, the the corner side yard is when you have a property that's along a corner, you have the front of your house facing a street, and then you have the side of your house also facing a street.

And then the final change is the request adjacent to a life safety concern for changes to fences in interior side yards. So this would be the property line that's between two homes. Currently we allow 4-ft fences along that interior side yard unless the adjacent home is over 5-ft from the property line.