Ardenwald neighbors gather at 2808 SE Balfour St., the site of the proposed secured residential treatment facility. The city council gave the city manager the go-ahead to settle the suit with the mom-profit Columbia Care Services, Inc.

I love the Ardenwald-Johnson Creek neighborhood in Portland/Milwaukie. The neighborhood boundaries are in two cities, but when neighbors get together, we unite.

Tuesday night the Milwaukie city council authorized the settlement of the discrimination suit filed by the Columbia Care Services, Inc. instead of bringing the case to trial, which the city has a very slim chance of winning.

Many residents in our neighborhood are against this facility because of the high-risk criminally insane forensic patients residing in a low-security facility built under the same codes as a residential home. The code also includes fences that cannot be higher than 6 feet and cannot have barbed wires.

The crimes committed by the criminally insane residents range from theft to arson to assault to murder. You can read more about the secured residential treatment facility on SE Balfour St. in Milwaukie at the www.ardenwald.org/balfour.html Web page.

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