HomeMy WebLinkAboutTaylor 11.23.20From: Madalyn Taylor <madalynpenelope@gmail.com>
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Date: 2020-11-23 21:10
Subject: Deep concerns regarding the zoning ordinance and the Red Lion
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Hello, Renton city officials,
My name is Madalyn Taylor. I have lived in Renton for nearly a decade; this town has been a wonderful new home to me since moving here. I work in
homelessness advocacy, and I was deeply disturbed to recently hear of the ordinance discussed at tonight's meeting, the interim zoning controls for homeless
shelters. I am writing to demand, for the sake of moral decency and respect for human life, that these ordinances be dropped immediately.
What you are proposing is going to dump homeless people back into the streets during a global pandemic. You are killing them, and you are doing so because of
social pressure from Renton's landowning class and racially-motivated hand-wringing about "crime" in conjunction with the shelter's operation. I hope that you all
feel a deep shame that such a proposal would even be given thought, let alone time, at your council meeting. These people are our neighbors; at least, they are
my neighbors, as a low-income working class person in Renton. The homeless are human beings, putting them out into the cold during the winter, during a
pandemic, is vile beyond words. You have a duty to every single member of the community you purport to be a servant of, not just the landowning class. Drop
this ordinance and issue an apology for considering this murderous, classist, racist action.
In solidarity with my houseless neighbors, here and worldwide,
-Madalyn Taylor (She/her/hers)