About 150 Richmond residents have attended a follow-up meeting on the safe injecting room, with a majority of residents voting in favour of a motion that the facility be moved out of Richmond and a 30-person residents' committee selected.

After a "venting" meeting about the controversial centre last month, a mix of young families, elderly couples, local workers and politicians including Reason Party MP Fiona Patten packed the All Nations Hotel beer garden, across the road from the injecting room, on Wednesday evening.

City of Yarra councillor Stephen Jolly addresses a second meeting of residents concerned about the safe injecting room in Richmond. Credit:Michael Fowler

The "solutions meeting", organised and chaired by City of Yarra councillor Stephen Jolly, did include multiple anecdotes from fearful and frustrated residents.

One man said he'd lived in his family home across the road from the injecting centre for 50 years but now had "one foot out the door".