It is better to dole-out resources in one geographical area than all over the county. We are in a financial crisis. Save the gas, save the money and do not bus these poor people all around the county. Give them the resources they need all in one area.

If decent and reasonable facilities are not built to address the problem, these people will end up on the streets of Burbank. And how is this better than a facility where they can get help?

… but I don’t think that’s the issue here. There are parts of Burbank that are filled with low-income brown-skinned folk (San Fernando Road terrain) but they are the silent, sneered-upon minority. The majority of Burbank residents, the ones who have an active community voice with the city council and city planners, are lilly-white and conservative to the core and consider themselves cultured because they can read a few paragraphs of Toni Morrison’s latest book during the commercial breaks on “Lost.” (They must watch “Lost”, you understand, because their next-door neighbor is the key grip/gaffer/director/writer or one of the stars of the show.) These are not evolved thinkers, in other words. They are reactionaries. To the average Burbankian mind, Rescue Mission translates to “icky, smelly homeless people”. Ew! Not in Burbank.

It’s just more NIMBY bullshit, Travis, but feel free to show up at the meeting on my behalf and read my missive. I loved Burbank from the first blush (and I still do) but there’s a benign redneck culture at large in that town born from the fact that for so many decades banks were handing down home loans to people of a middle-class stripe represented on TV by shows like Roseanne and Married with Children. Got the picture? Burbank.