It seems that some neighbors of Magnolia's Fort Lawton Army Reserve base aren't very original in their objections to having homeless housing in their neighborhood.
At an Aug. 21 Seattle City Council hearing on a redevelopment proposal that calls for Seattle's Archdiocesan Housing Authority to build 85 units of homeless housing at the site and private developers to build 108-125 homes and townhouses, some residents raised concerns about their safety.
At Councilmember Tim Burgess' request, AHA's Bill Hallerman described a similar but much bigger uproar in the 1980s over converting Queen Anne's Aloha Inn to 66 units of homeless housing. But a neighborhood group that once kept an eye on the place disbanded years ago because members no longer saw the need, Hallerman said.
"And home values on Queen Anne," Burgess quipped, "have not gone down, have they?"