Think of the Neighbors!

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/think-of-the-neighbors/Content?oid=1133455

Way to go, kids. A group bent on neighborhood preservation (read: making sure Grandma & Grampa can still feel like they’re in the good old days by preventing anything that resembles healthy growth) has decided that sick kids do not take priority over their own nostalgic idiocies. They’ve filed to stop an expansion of The Children’s Hospital, one that would fulfill the projected need for the next twenty years of three hundred and fifty more beds, because it would change the character of the neighborhood.

Get over yourself. Cities grow, buildings get built, people you don’t like will buy the house next door without your permission, and you want to stand in the way of the sick kids? Way to go, slugger.

“Ingrid Savage, who has lived in Laurelhurst for 37 years, says, “These people have been whining about every single thing the hospital does… for years.” She adds: “I’m embarrassed to say I live in Laurelhurst.” For example, Savage cites the community club’s successful efforts to reduce medevac helicopter trips to and from Children’s Hospital. (Hale says the helipad at Children’s is half a block from an elementary school and “landing causes big gusts of wind and endangers the kids on the playfield.”)”

Wow.