City Orders Family to Get Rid of Special Needs Child's Make-A-Wish Gift

A family is locked in a struggle with the Santa Fe Springs city government after officials issued a citation ordering them to tear down a backyard playground that was built by the Make-A-Wish Foundation for their 10-year-old daughter who suffers from a severe seizure disorder.

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Typical Political A$$-Clowns,blowing Hot and Cold at the same time!

There are other ways to clean up a playset (if that truly was the problem) rather than dismantling it; sounds more like the citation was issued due to the structure being too close to fence lines/too tall per City ordinance or per HOA CC&Rs.

Whatever the problem is (especially since its cleanliness isn't the issue), variances, exceptions, and grandfathered-in provisions occur all the time, across the U.S.; anyone from the City Manager all the way up to the State's governor has the ability TO issue one.

Which someone will, now that the situation's receiving attention.

Whoever said, "your daughter's disability is not the city's problem" needs to be sent back to Customer Service 101 training. Whoever said, "Your daughter's not our problem" (if, in fact, it was said and not the mother paraphrasing what she thought she heard) needs to be fired.

I work a lot with the Make-A Wish Foundation, and believe me when I tell you that before they would install this for the child all ordinances were checked!

Someone in govt dropped the ball on this one!