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The original was posted on /r/philadelphia by /u/Sad_Ring_3373 on 2024-04-08 14:20:33.

Jones is not making his case well but the reality is BG proposed to quadruple the number of beds in what was a very small in-patient facility:

• located between three residential neighborhoods and a children’s playground.
• immediately adjacent to a part of Fairmount Park with increasing problems with drug dealing and use.
• in a neighborhood with virtually no police presence and no surveillance due to historic low crime rates.
• with an operating partner who had been expelled from four states due to inpatient overdose deaths and drug-dealing on their properties.

The spot zoning shouldn’t happen, but Jones’ proposal to split off “drug, alcohol, and rehabilitation clinics” as a category separate from “hospitals” in the zoning code is absolutely the right way to approach this.