A company that operates two methadone clinics in Asheville, N.C., has filed a certificate of need to operate a clinic in Johnson City, nearly a decade after a similar effort failed. The company also has filed suit against the city claiming that its zoning restrictions for such facilities violate the Americans with Disabilities Act.• Methadone clinic operator challenges Johnson City's zoning policy in lawsuit. The company attempting to open a drug treatment clinic in Johnson City filed a federal lawsuit earlier this month asking a judge to strike down the city’s zoning rules on such a facility and force the city to issue the required permits to allow the clinic.
• Both sides of methadone clinic issue have say at public hearing. A clear separation of support and opposition for the proposed location of a methadone clinic in Johnson City was felt throughout the Jones Meeting Center at the Johnson City Public Library Tuesday evening.
• Proposed Johnson City methadone clinic hearing scheduled for late MayA fact-finding public hearing is scheduled for May 28 on a proposal to locate a methadone clinic in Johnson City.
• Johnson City methadone clinic opposition grows. A resolution opposing starting a methadone clinic in Johnson City could be presented at the March meeting of the Washington County Commission.
• Methadone clinic may open in Johnson CityA certificate of need should be filed this week for a methadone clinic to locate in Johnson City, nearly 10 years after a certificate was granted but later revoked, according to a representative of the company backing this latest effort.
• Johnson City isn’t a good location for methadone clinic. We are adamantly opposed to efforts to locate a methadone clinic in Johnson City. It was a bad idea 10 years ago, and it’s still a bad idea today.
• Piney Flats methadone clinic proposal gets withdrawn. The proposal to rezone property to allow placement of a methadone clinic in Piney Flats did not make it to the Sullivan County Regional Planning Commission for consideration at Tuesday night’s meeting, having been withdrawn earlier in the day.
• Sullivan planners to hear from methadone clinic opposition. A Piney Flats community organization has asked to attend the Sullivan County Planning Commission meeting tonight to voice their displeasure over the possible location of a methadone treatment clinic in its midst.