Beware those dangerous seniors!!
TEMECULA, CA – Elizabeth Falcon’s plan to open a second senior home in the Temecula area has run into a buzz saw of neighborhood complaints.
Elizabeth Falcon walks down Pebble Brook Circle where fellow neighbors have posted signs of dissent. Falcon, who owns a six-bed neighborhood senior care home in the Redhawk community of Temecula, has run into opposition as she tries to open another facility in a neighborhood just outside Temecula.
About 10 hand-painted yard signs, including ones that proclaim “Save Our Street” and “Say ‘no’ to elder care,” line a quiet cul-de-sac in the 127-home Oak Creek Community, a new subdivision just outside the city limits at Temecula’s southeast corner.
The dispute has pitted residents against each other on Pebble Brook Circle, forced the neighborhood’s homeowners association to seek legal advice, and left Falcon frustrated and embarrassed.
“Did you see the signs? It’s terrible,” Falcon told a recent visitor to her home, which is a short distance from the 2,500-square-foot Pebble Brook property where she soon plans to take in up to six seniors in a residential setting where meals, but not medical care, would be provided.
Falcon wonders what her new residents will think when they move into their controversial new home.
“It’s a hostile place to live in,” she said.
Some neighbors support the senior home or do not care, and a Riverside County official said the potential impacts will likely be less than neighbors fear.
And although local agencies cannot interject themselves into the dispute and the homeowners association has declined to intervene, the cluster of neighborhood elder-care foes say they will keep up the pressure and possibly even carry picket signs if Falcon, as expected, receives a state permit to operate the home.