Monument homeowners want to hire a lawyer to fight incoming methadone clinic

Neighbors who live near a new methadone clinic in Monument aren’t backing down from their efforts to keep the facility from opening across from Limbach Park.

“The lawyer is the most important and it is the most important in regards to the board of adjustment,” said homeowner Tom Allen.

A group of volunteers asked neighbors for donations Thursday night.

“We’re just going to fight it, it’s all we can do,” said homeowner Bobby Morris, who lives right across the street from the clinic.

Other neighbors said they were shocked when they first learned the clinic was coming to town and want to stop it.

Colonial Management Group was at a meeting with Monument town leaders and residents last week. Residents grew angry by the responses the company offered and some said at Thursday night’s meeting that reaction was the last straw.

“Town council dropped the ball. They didn’t look into the company, and when we ask, ‘You didn’t ask what kind of medical facility it’s going to be?’ They told us, ‘We didn’t have to ask,'” Morris said.

Monument’s town manager said the town’s lawyer advised her not to agree to an interview, but she did send a press release Thursday afternoon saying the clinic’s owner never mentioned methadone in the initial application to remodel the existing building.

Colonial Management Group didn’t respond to KRDO NewsChannel 13’s requests for interview.

Some neighbors were fearful, others shocked at how this has changed the town in just a few weeks.

“I was in complete shock. I don’t know how a clinic like that could come into a community this small and so close-knit,” said Susan Hunter-Smith. “Why that building? Why did they choose that building?”

An appeal to the Board of Adjustment has been filed and a hearing will be held Monday, August 10 at 6:30 p.m. at the Lewis Palmer School District Administration Building.