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Divided appeals court says Lake County wrong to deny permit for homeless shelter in public building

By Elizabeth Alt | Thursday, Nov 2, 2017 @ 4:58pm

A charity seeking to operate a new residence facility in Lake County for the chronically homeless have secured a win in their tussle with county officials over the project, after a divided state appellate panel sided with a trial court's decision to reverse a county board's decision to deny the Lake County PADS group's application to open a new site for its Safe Haven program in a vacant government building.