Cliffside residents seek temporary restraining order against neighborhood treatment facility

LOGAN – City officials have issued a controversial conditional use permit (CUP) for a residential treatment facility in the fashionable Cliffside neighborhood in Logan and the neighbors are quietly up in arms.

The neighbors’ objection isn’t so much with the facility itself, according to J. Brett Chambers, a local attorney with Harris, Preston & Chambers, LLC. Rather, they object to the way that their voices were unilaterally excluded from the decision-making process by Michael DeSimone, the city’s community development director.

According to court documents, DeSimone authored an Aug. 4 city memo in which he justified waiving Logan’s maximum occupancy limit of three unrelated individuals in a residential dwelling and its requirements for a public hearing prior to issuing a conditional use