Proposed Group Home for Troubled Youths Rejected
A group home for troubled teenagers that was evicted from space at the UC Irvine Medical Center has decided not to open a facility in Azusa.
Faced with opposition from residents and city leaders, the Research Treatment Institute refused to participate in a Planning Commission hearing on whether to revoke a permit that would have allowed them to operate a 53-bed facility on Sierra Madre Avenue. The council asked the commission to reconsider the permit after a report in The Times detailed how the home was evicted by UC Irvine because its residents were “out of control.”
“The city has already won,” Robert Myers, an attorney for Research Treatment Institute, wrote in a letter to city officials. “The project was killed when the city initiated revocation proceedings.”
Nonetheless, the Planning Commission recommended that the permit be revoked. That vote was greeted with cheers from more 60 residents who attended the hearing.
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