 Edgewater Recovery Center is hoping to locate a new facility in Pikeville, and the plan, while welcomed by some, has prompted concerns from some of the residents of Pikeville Cedar Creek Community, where the facility is proposed to be located. Later, we have 106 beds around County with six locations full support of the community. The Pikeville City Commission hosted Thursday's discussion between Edgewater administrators and some of the residents of Cedar Creek. Edgewater is hoping to locate a recovery center in the former Kinzer property on Cedar Hills. The goal is to have around a dozen patients in recovery once the facility opens. The organizers say they want to help those seeking treatment for addiction. We're just, we're trying to get back to something that's very, very important to us. Eastern Kentucky and Pike County has a very special place in my heart, my recovery. I was kind of unfolded here several years ago, and it's always been just my desire to give back to Eastern Kentucky. You know, we're here to try to make a difference in the community, not to harm the community in no way, shape or form. That we, you know, we've been in Rowland County for over two years. We faced kind of the similar concerns when we opened there. You know, two years later, we're kind of welcomed in the community with open arms. I would have liked, loved if someone had told me about this a little earlier. But not everyone in Cedar Creek is welcoming of Edgewater. While everyone agreed that recovery centers are needed, some residents of Cedar Creek, one of the more well-to-do communities in Pikeville, wondered why Edgewater chose their neighborhood for their facility. Others simply stated they do not support the idea. We agree there is a need, but there is lots of property in the county and the city that could be used as alternative locations, and that's what we would like to see. We wanted in another location. We would support a facility of this type, but just in another place. I'm really struggling here, struggling trying to understand why this house, why our community. I am against this. I don't like the idea that we are going to have this type of facility in a residential community where people walk a lot. A lot of people in Pikeville go through that area. They also come across the gap there from the Y because there's a trail up through there. I just do not think it is a good thing to put where you are asking to put it. Do we need these facilities? Yes, Pike County needs them. We just don't need them in Cedar Creek. Thank you. I'm fairly certain that if we were putting this in a poorer side of Pike County, we would be here tonight. That's the bottom we can cut to the chase. That's it. We would not. There are already residential centers located in Pike County that have trailer parks right beside of them. There was no special meeting for that. They are already in existence. There's already Suboxone clinics in Pike County. There was no special meeting for them. Why? Because of the Cedar Creek. I believe in the Kinders. I don't think they would harm our community whatsoever. Again, I'm not saying yes or no to Cedar Creek. I'm just saying that if the Kinders and if Barry has anything to do with it, then it's going to be a first-class facility. People who are coming to this facility are coming there to get clean. I hear lots of concerns about the tops of people that are coming in and what they're going to be bringing in to that area. They're not bringing anything except themselves and some hope. There was a time that I would have been. I could have been on either side of it. But due to the facts in my life and what I've had to live through, what I've seen out of it, going to meetings with me, going to mugs for the treatment center, I think it's the best thing to have in this community. But that doesn't mean you all have to think that. I've been right before you were at it, if you don't think that. There's a couple of things about the Cedar Creek location. One of the co-owners with me in Edgewater Recovery actually already has a property there. And that property has been sitting there, not in use for some time. Even though it's in Cedar Creek, it's actually very isolated in Cedar Creek. But it's also close enough to the services that the people we serve may need that we are unable to offer on site, such as any type of medical services, dental services, the things that our clients may need. We certainly understand that we're never going to be able to please everyone. The people that we serve, the people suffering from the disease of addiction, there's already a great stigma associated with that. And they certainly feel like everyone's against them. So it's very important to the people that we serve that we build a healthy relationship with the community. You know, these are people. I mean, they're not bad people trying to get good. They're sick people that are trying to get well. Pikeville Attorney Rusty Davis told the crowd at Thursday's meeting that the former Kinzer House is zoned for commercial and residential use, clearing the way for Edgewater to use the property. Edgewater's administrators say if the facility causes problems in Cedar Creek once it's open, they will close down the facility and move out. Reporting from Mountain Top News, I'm Chris Anderson.