After a rally outside Redmond City Hall, protesters packed the council meeting Tuesday and shared their frustrations about King County’s plans for homeless housing at the former Redmond Silver Cloud Inn.

Many people begged Mayor Angela Birney to put up a fight and stop the sale from going through.

The anger and frustration was evident as a few counter protesters made their case to support homeless housing in Redmond. But inside, the vast majority of the people were outraged and the criticism kept coming and coming for several for hours.

“You moved forward with this purchase without public comment, and you chose to ignore the impact on our community,” a man said during public comments.

Even though King County is leading this transaction and was not obligated to hold any public comment period before purchasing the former Silver Cloud Inn to house the homeless, many residents said Birney at the very least should have done more to protect the city and give residents an opportunity to voice their concerns before the sale.

“I don’t know if there is anything that can be done to stop this but it must be stopped,” one man said at the council meeting.

The city council meeting was packed with members of “Safe Eastside,” a coalition of neighbors, business owners, and tech workers who live nearby or across the street from the Silver Cloud. They’re worried about crime, drug use, and other baggage that could follow the homeless into the community, and want a say on how this place is operated and who is allowed to move in.

“There are just so many unanswered questions,” a woman said at the meeting.

Adding to the frustration, there is confusion about supervised drug use at this site. Will it be allowed or not?

For more than a week, Executive Dow Constantine’s office has been adamantly saying no. But if you go to King County’s frequently asked questions page on this matter, it clearly talks about “providers using a harm reduction approach, with drug use being permitted inside individual units.”

“Now I’d like to know what kind of drug use," a man in attendance said. "Are they allowed to use heroine? Obviously there are different levels of drug use."

We asked the Executive’s office for more clarity, but so far no response. Birney stayed late in the council meeting and was unable to speak with us. But her spokesperson said she will sit down with us for an interview on Wednesday.

The homeless housing site in Redmond is scheduled to open sometime before winter.