This is not advocacy. This is stigma dressed in scrubs.
Let’s be honest about what happened Monday in the Council Chambers.
More than 260 residents of one of Lexington’s wealthiest, most comfortable neighborhoods showed up to fight tooth and nail against a mental health facility moving in down the street. They brought attorneys. They brought PowerPoints. They brought a real estate developer from Richmond Road who somehow kept a straight face testifying against another developer’s project. They brought doctors, nurses, a pharmacist, and a pediatric urologist — all credentialed, all earnest, all deployed in service of keeping sick people somewhere else.
And when the Board of Adjustment voted 4-2 to approve the permit anyway, they booed. They jeered. They shouted at the board. In a government chamber. At volunteers doing their civic duty…