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Article: Residents resisting group facility Developmentally disabled to be near another home
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- May 16, 1996
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Frustrated residents near Currie Park are angry over plans to open
a group home for five developmentally disabled adults near an
existing group home in their neighborhood.
City officials say they sympathize with the residents but doubt
there is much they can do to stop the home from opening.
Their worries center on a request by Homes for Independent Living
Inc. to open a home at 10136 W. Vienna Ave., just 400 feet from a
group home for older adults that was licensed last year at 10328
Park Ridge Ave.
Neighbors along W. Vienna Ave. say their property values and
quality of life will diminish with the licensing of another group
home in the area.
"I'm fearful that some people will be ...