2. I feel the Erkwood location they are planning is inappropriate and not compatible with the residential nature of the neighborhood; the county zoning officials should deny any request to make a zoning change from residential or make an exception for them. I believe the county zoning officials have an obligation to protect the residents for creeping commercialization.

3. I feel their proposed rehab program, which does not include addiction medications, will not be effective; and will even be dangerous for some addicts because confined abstinence will reduce their drug tolerance and leave them vulnerable to overdose once they are released from in-house rehab.

4. I hope FC and MCBC will realize the incompatibility of their proposal and accept help from the neighborhood in finding an appropriate location in a commercial or industrial area; and reappraise their proposed program of abstinence rehab without addiction medications

5. I feel MCBC has built a huge "commercial/religious" complex on their expanding properties, and probably expect to expand further in the future. They have much undeveloped land. It is "creeping commercialism" in a residential area. There has to be a limit to this.

6. I feel MCBC has failed the community by not taking appropriate measures to make their properties more compatible with the residential neighborhood; commercial building, too many signs, huge parking lots without vegetation buffers.

7. While MCBC has taken measures to control and hasten traffic before and after their services, it is a significant traffic issue for the neighborhood already.

8. Further, I strongly feel the municipalities and the county need to allocate sufficient funds to tackle the drug problem; this is not to suggest they are doing nothing or unsympathetic to the cause. Hope Rx and others are working hard to coalesce a combined effort, including public officials. However, the problem is so large, and the effective solutions so expensive (in-house long term medicine assisted rehab), that public funding is the only possible approach that will have a significant impact. I am not criticizing our public officials, but strongly urge that they reconsider priorities in light of a fast growing public problem. I think a blue ribbon committee of knowledgeable and interested parties to study and recommend action would be a good first step. I believe our county and municipal leaders will act once there is a good plan in place.

9. Finally, I believe the impact on our publicly funded services caused by illicit drugs, such as on police, EMS, firemen, hospitals, courts, lawyers, DSS, social services is currently so large that we will see a significant payoff if we can reduce drug addiction in our county.