Good afternoon, my name is Tim Pfohl, and I am President of
Bellevue Civic Association.

In this role I’ve represented the 2,500 residents in our neighborhood
on the issue of Crisis Pregnancy and 4100 Brook Road for two and a
half years - at Planning Commission, at City Council, and in our own
neighborhood meetings. In those meetings I have spoken to several
issues that concern residents about this application, and I recognize
many of those issues are not under consideration here today, so I’ll
attempt to be brief and relevant. The message I’ve conveyed is that:
 

Ø     Crisis Pregnancy used its status as a nonprofit social service
organization to obtain the building at a deeply discounted price
(recognized by the IRS Code regarding non-profits), then applied
to the City to use the site as a social service provider, but now
wants to say that the status they claimed no longer describes their
operation;

 Ø     Crisis Pregnancy’s own data verifies that this is the only facility
that serves a tightly clustered demographic segment from across the
entire region. If, as they claim, they served the “general population
of sexually active adults” surely there would be more than one small
facility to serve a region of one million people;

Ø     the material goods collection and distribution, which is one of the
particularly troublesome aspects of the proposed operation, is
indeed is a function that encourages contributors to make charitable
donations to the target client population;

Ø     the free classes they want to offer at this site is also a social service
activity that targets a specific population, but is inappropriate in a
neighborhood of single family homes;

Ø     the vast majority of our neighbors recognize this is a social service
use that is not compatible with the surrounding residential zoning,
in fact it is only allowed by right in the central business district
zoning;

In short, the zoning for this site may not be perfect, but it’s not broken
either. The currently permitted office use is acceptable, and having Crisis
Pregnancy’s administrative office located there is acceptable, but I want to
express our neighborhood association’s support for the Zoning Administrator’s
decision that this is a social service delivery use, and for the Planning
Commission’s decision that this is not the appropriate location for such a use.

Congratulations, this is a challenging and unique case, but the system has worked fine. Let’s stay the course.