OSSIPEE — The Ossipee Zoning Board on Tuesday unanimously granted White Horse Recovery Center a special exception to have a 28-bed residential treatment facility despite objections from neighbors who raised concerns about safety, water use, lighting and crime.
White Horse is a 501(c)(3) non-profit behavioral health center with locations in Ossipee and North Conway. It offers both secular and Christian-based substance-use disorder programs, as well as mental health services.
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Build it and they will come. Drug addicts that is. Make no mistake about it this is a profit making enterprise that will enrich the developers of this facility while taxing the citizens who's services will be strained as a result and attract an element you do not want to increase in your valley. There is a reason I don't live there. Cross roads house in Portsmouth comes to mind. Dazed and confused people wandering around, police trying to corral them up when they escape or just wander off and are found sleeping in your car. Do you think the developers are helping people? At whose expense? You won't find out until it's too late.
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