Council confirmed that at this time, Citizens Serving the Homeless has still not made any formal application to build housing in Burlington Township.
At the Feb. 28 township council meeting, resident Joseph Signor expressed his concern for the proposed homeless housing project.
Signor says he recently got engaged to his girlfriend, a resident of Marlton.
“Our plan was to sell her home and start a family in Burlington [Township]. We love the house and the neighborhood and all the people around us, but now we’re kind of concerned with the possibility of this,” Signor said.
Nonprofit organization Citizens Serving the Homeless is looking to build 60 units to house the homeless near the Sunset Ridge neighborhood. The purchased site is between the Church of the Nazarene and Casamari Italian Restaurant on Sunset Road.
Signor is not the first resident to express concern over the possibility of homeless housing being built in Burlington Township. At the Feb. 14 council meeting, dozens of residents presented mayor and council with a petition to stop the homeless housing units from being built.
Many of the same residents made an appearance at the Feb. 28 council meeting, but Signor was the only one to speak.
Councilwoman Patricia Siboczy commended the residents for showing their support.
“I think it’s really great when good things happen in the town and people band together and make it even better, but I think it’s just as important, if not more so, that when there are concerns, we band together as a whole,” Siboczy said.
Council confirmed that at this time, Citizens Serving the Homeless has still not made any formal application to build housing in Burlington Township.
In other news:
• Mayor Brian Carlin announced that its March 14 meeting, council will recognize the Burlington Township High School Jazz Nouveau for their accomplishment of placing first in their division at the Berklee Jazz Festival last month.
• At the March 28 meeting, council will recognize the Burlington Township High School junior varsity cheerleaders for winning both the national and world “game day” titles for their division at the National High School Cheerleading Championship at Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando last month. The championship was televised on ESPN.
