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   Name: Deborah Ramos on Sep 17, 2011

   Comments: VM Ybor has historically been a middle-class residential neighborhood. Despite belief that this is very dangerous area, it's residents are working hard to bring it back to it's former condition. Many properties are starting to be renovated, though many are in disrepair. The level of poverty is still staggering, and there is some crime. Families are trying desperately to turn this area around, assisting lower income residents to improve their homes. They have been working to help our unemployed residents find work, and have been vigilant about trying to stop crime. Relocating Trinity Cafe to VM Ybor will only make the challenge to bring this neighborhood back to it's former status that much more difficult.

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   Name: Christopher Patterson on Sep 17, 2011

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   Name: Nicolle Azar Thompson on Sep 17, 2011

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   Name: William Stewart on Sep 17, 2011

   Comments: i think it's appalling that the city leaders are allowing a struggling historical neighborhood suffer a set back like this. The homeless people need more than a fancy table cover, they need services and support in an area that they are already in. relocating them to another part of town is not the solution.

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   Name: Stephen Foster on Sep 17, 2011

   Comments: Trinity cafe should consider the ramifications of building in a neighborhood that has been working very hard to make these historic houses a neighborhood that tampa can be proud of.

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   Name: Pete D Johnson on Sep 17, 2011

   Comments: The location of this facility in this neighborhood is not acceptable. To add more problems to a neighborhood that is fighting for a better quality of life is not logical. There is no reason why the Trinity Cafe can not have two or more lunch periods at the present location. Allowing 200 plus people to gather and hang out until lunch is severed as is done at the Salvation Army building in a family residential neighborhood with in close location to a school is not acceptable. For the City of Tampa to consider this facility a restaurant due to Historically doing the same in the passed is not advancing into the future if the 21 century.

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   Name: Collin Thompson on Sep 18, 2011

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   Name: Andrew Hanson Folb on Sep 18, 2011

   Comments: Although I appreciate the efforts of Trinity to feed the poor, they neglected to negotiate terms with the residents who have worked vehemently to improve quality and safety of our neighborhood . No one could deny that the installation of said soup kitchen in the middle of this already heavily populated residential neighborhood would undoubtedly have a negative impact on our hard fought improvements. Please do not ruin what we have so hard striven for over the last decade. Why do you think the present location is in a sparsely populated area in the first place? This is unfair and uncalled for.

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   Name: Daniel Kruse on Sep 18, 2011

   Comments: Please reconsider bringing this distressed troubled group of people to my back yard. I have children who could be compromised by people living on the edge.

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    Name: Anonymous on Sep 18, 2011

    Comments: I believe in feeding the hungry. I also believe a better location for this facility exists. The people who live in this neighborhood just want our neighborhood respected, like anyone would. While others may feel our neighborhood is "blighted", to us, it is our home. It should not be treated as the "go-to" location for things that are unwanted in other neighborhoods. V.M. Ybor has improved and there are many residents who actually care about the condition of the neighborhood and work to improve it in a variety of ways. Florida Avenue, just north of downtown, is the location for many homeless services. This kitchen would be more helpful to the community it wants to serve by being located in that vicinity, which is near bus lines as well. And finally, V.M. Ybor and the surrounding neighborhoods serve as the northernmost gateway into and out of historic Ybor City. Why not help us improve and mesh with Ybor City? The V.M. Ybor neighborhood association has included people of any race and economic level that reside in the neighborhood in their activities. I do not believe the V.M.Y.N.A. is trying to be "anti" anything and is instead "pro" making this important historic neighborhood a better place to live.

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    Name: Tony LaColla on Sep 18, 2011

    Comments: As President of the Historic Ybor Neighborhood Association I oppose the opening of Trinity Cafe in VM Ybor Neighborhood. The residents and business owners of Ybor City have been dealing with a severe homeless problem for many years. Well before the current economic crisis. Adding more homeless to our streets, which this cafe will do, will drive away business from our neighborhood making it even harder to attract customers and residents to Ybor City.

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    Name: Bonnie Garcia on Sep 18, 2011

    Comments: While I am sympathetic to the needs of the homeless, I live on 17th Avenue and I am very concerned how this will affect my neighborhood. I like many others in the neighborhood are working very hard to clean up VM Ybor and make it a place where young working people will want to move and raise their families. We already have a business at the corner of Columbus Drive and 17th Avenue that constantly block our street with their trucks and fork lifts driving up and down 17th and 9th St. I am asking that you please do NOT allow this relocation.

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    Name: George Garcia on Sep 18, 2011

    Comments: My grandmother built the house on 17th Avenue in VM Ybor in 1924 that I currently live in. I was born in this house and raised here in Ybor. I have worked for the past 6 years restoring the house to its original beauty and have met many other young people who have moved into this neighborhood and are restoring their houses also. We have come a long way in the last 6 years and even though we still have problems in the area, things are much better. One thing we do not need is to be bringing homeless people into the area 7 days a week. I have seen these people sleeping on the sidewalks on Florida Ave. and surrounding areas and I am very worried that they will do the same up and down Nebraska Ave. and in Borrell Park. We have also heard from neighbors in Tampa Heights who live near the Salvation Army that they are constantly having trash thrown in their yard from the homeless and also report using their yards as a bathroom. I am very opposed to this relocation and ask that Trinity not be allowed to operate at the Nebraska location.

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    Name: Jenna Clements on Sep 18, 2011

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    Name: Judy Greer on Sep 18, 2011

    Comments: You have so many opportunities to minister to homeless who actually WANT to earn their keep. There is a perfect opportunity on Channelside where a staffing business is located right next to a non-working barbershop that has been renovated. These men and women need your food services and work for their living. Please do not disrupt the hard working folks in my 'hood with your enabling efforts and take care of the folks who NEED and deserve your services. The druggies and alcoholics in VMY don't need to be "kept." They need to work. FYI, my own sister died a few years back from good intentions of the state and "other enabling" entities of a drug overdose. I know whereof I speak. Thanks.

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    Name: Susan W. Long on Sep 18, 2011

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    Name: FunIn Ybor on Sep 18, 2011

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    Name: Wiebke Crum on Sep 18, 2011

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    Name: Anonymous on Sep 18, 2011

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    Name: Erica Griffiths on Sep 18, 2011

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    Name: Mathieu Stanoch on Sep 19, 2011

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    Name: Anonymous on Sep 19, 2011

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    Name: Kathleen Nicholson on Sep 19, 2011

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    Name: Barbara Bell on Sep 19, 2011

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    Name: Albert Cooke on Sep 19, 2011

    Comments: save our families and neighborhood from crime and trash

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    Name: Brian L. Henderson on Sep 19, 2011

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    Name: Vincent Caltagirone on Sep 19, 2011

    Comments: I oppose Trinity Cafe's relocation to 2801 N.Nebraska Avenue

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    Name: Toni Clark on Sep 19, 2011

    Comments: I would like to petition this. This is right up the street from us and we don't want a lot of homeless people hanging around the area all day and night and making it unsafe for us.

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    Name: Anonymous on Sep 19, 2011

    Comments: A residential neighborhood is just not an appropriate location for program of this type. The walks along Nebraska avenue wouldn't be able to handle the queueing of hundreds of people.

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    Name: Joshua Pillock on Sep 19, 2011

    Comments: I oppose the proposed relocation of Trinity Cafe to VM Ybor.

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    Name: Zach Taylor on Sep 19, 2011

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    Name: Dean Jones on Sep 21, 2011

    Comments: While I do agree that this cafe's mission is an honorable one, why not locate it outside of a any residential or retail areas? Perhaps down at the port where it would not disturd residents or businesses.

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    Name: Rusty Bromwell on Sep 21, 2011

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    Name: Kim Headland on Sep 22, 2011

    Comments: This should not be relocated to a neighborhood... no matter what zoning says. This is simply not an appropriate location. No matter how dignified the meal may be, there has been no consideration for the impact on VM Ybor, 5000+ residents, and the Nebraska Corridor for the additional 22 hours / day.

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    Name: Teresa McIntyre on Sep 22, 2011

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    Name: Michael McIntyre on Sep 22, 2011

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    Name: Christina Gesmundo on Sep 24, 2011

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    Name: Anonymous on Sep 26, 2011

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    Name: Natalia Gago on Oct 1, 2011

    Comments: I live in this neighborhood and I am opposed to Trinity Cafe's plan.

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    Name: Tania Jimenez on Oct 11, 2011

    Comments: VM Ybor has come a long way as a prospering and growing community the last few years. The battle againts drugs and prostitution problemsare still being faught. The residents still deal with the daily threat of having possibly dangerous people living next door at halfway homes. The last thing this neighborhood needs is a population of 100 or more homeless hanging around Nebraska avenue, occupying the Borrell Park, andpanhandling every availablecorner from the cafe to the Salvation Army. Nebraska avenue needs new businessed. Investors wont want to buy and put money into renovating spaces when there are transients walking the street infront of them without the funds to spend in their shops. Also, a good majority of the homeless population havemental illnsses and drug relation behavioral problems making it even more un nerving to try to even walk down the street in this part oftown. I already dont feel safe reven riding a bike to Ybor City or Seminole Heights. Add a large number of desperate homeless to that risk of being raped, robbed or murdered. If Trinity Cafe opens its doors myself and many others Im sure will forget about trying to be part of this once growing community and no longer want to buy and renovate property here. As it is, the neighborhood is rough enough. Trinity cafe will only further detour investors from adding to the success of VMYbor

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    Name: Barbara Lopez on Jan 19, 2012

    Comments: As a long-time childhood resident and current owner of several properties in this area. I oppose Trinity Cafe's relocation to 2801 N. Nebraska Avenue. The VM Ybor community has been working very hard at building itself. Having lived on 12th Street and 18th Avenue for most of my childhood years, I saw first hand how quickly a community that was build on a strong foundation of hard-working imigrants become blighted and faded-away leaving behind few survivors. Do not dishearten the people who are now pulling it all back together. Although, I do not live in any of the properties I own in VM Ybor, I see the difference these families are trying to make within the community. Provide them the support they need in order to bring back the TRUE YBOR CITY RESIDENTIAL AREA FROM LONG AGO.

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    Name: Yvonne Garcia on Jan 28, 2012

    Comments: It makes no sense to decentralize the homeless outreach operations by moving to our neighborhood. There are far too many of us who would also be effected negatively. Feeding the homeless is certainly important, but this makes no sense at all. I oppose it. Yvonne Garcia

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    Name: Sean Conlon on Jan 30, 2012

    Comments: I oppose Trinity Cafe opening in VM Ybor neighborhood.

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    Name: Vivienne Brown on Feb 2, 2012

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    Name: Lisa Bornstein on Feb 6, 2012

    Comments: Against trinity cafe in our neighborhood

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    Name: Kirsty Herzog on Feb 12, 2012

    Comments: I live at 1006 E 21st Ave., a very short distance from the proposed relocation site for the Trinity Cafe. I'm very opposed to this relocation. We work very hard to keep our home nice, and we're constantly picking up trash that's thrown in our yard and on the street in front of our house and in our community. We've already seen our home's value plummet, and having hundreds of homeless people dine around the corner from our house would surely further damage the value of our home and our quality of living. Already I'm asked for money by homeless people everytime I walk out of the grocery store or gas station in our community and often in my very own driveway! This is a residential neighborhood and the proposed site isn't an appropriate place for a "Homeless Cafe".

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    Name: Geri Nuevo on Feb 12, 2012

    Comments: I am very opposed to this relocation site for the "Homeless Cafe". I live right around the corner from the proposed location, and having hundreds of homeless people dining daily close to my home would diminish my home's worth and also my family's quality of life.

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    Name: Patrick Hernly on Feb 13, 2012

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    Name: Carrie Hernly on Feb 13, 2012

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    Name: Reid Shecterle on Feb 13, 2012

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