New York City’s Human Resources Administration has decided not to send homeless clients who are HIV positive to a shelter in Elmhurst, Queens, because of protests from the neighborhood’s residents, the New York Daily News reports. Despite a rally against shelter earlier this month, the Queens Alliance, which runs similar facilities in other boroughs, plans to continue operating their Elmhurst location.

According to the article, the Queens Alliance facility aimed to provide temporary housing for up to 29 homeless, HIV-positive people. Locals are concerned about the shelter’s proximity to an elementary and nursery school, as well as a facility for disabled adults. Elmhurst residents intend to present about 1,400 signatures that they collected in support of closing the facility to Deputy Mayor Dennis Walcott and the Human Resources Administration.

“The fear here is that we don’t know what’s happening with this site,” said Rosemarie Daraio, president of the civic group Communities of Maspeth and Elmhurst Together. “We’re very concerned.”

The city has not sent any clients to the shelter during the one month it has been open.