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January 18th, 2010 at 5:48 pm
Thanks to Lynne - I found the full Councilor packet and read the traffic studies for the proposed Walgreen’s- 3 yrs old, traffic has increased, no allowances for the 2 new and one newly planned-for businesses within eyeshot of the Rourke Bridge. And then there are those yellow lines they want to paint on Cornell and Columbia. Maybe they need to actually drive down those streets today and see that they are barely one car wide. I have emailed all Councilors that I could at their homes as it turns out they did not get any of our email before last weeks meeting. I find that very interesting as I sent mine out well before the deadline for packets. Nor did they have full traffic studies before the public heraring last weeks. Thanks to all who support us. You are appreciated.
January 19th, 2010 at 2:48 pm
I will be very interested to see who votes yes and who votes no on this tonight. Will the new Councilors go with the neighborhoods as they promised during their campaigns or will they vote with business? Will Councilors that voted yes to the land sale (which is not the same as supporting a specific development) vote yes or no for the abandonment of the street now that they will see the real plans and potential impact to the neighborhood from the actual traffic studies that are now complete.
They did not have this “real impact” data before. To vote to make the parcel available for bid and sale is a far different vote than this one. At that time anyone could bid on the land. It didn’t necessarily mean that Walgreens would.
Will people on this blog still support councilors that don’t vote their way? What about Councilors that do NOT support the project like Bud? He’s not a darling of this blog. I’ll be interested to see the fallout and responses after tonights vote. Are people going to hold the new councilors feet to the fire or will they get a pass? I think its going to be interesting.
January 19th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
I’ll support an individual decision of someone that I generally don’t support, hells yeah. I’ll give Bud his due. It just isn’t an issue much. (Though I suspect he’ll behave a little differently now that he’s not following Kaz’s lead.)
This is not an all or nothing blog. If the CM does something I don’t like I sure as heck will post on it. And if Bud or Rita does something right, sure, I’ll post on that too. It’s just rare.
January 19th, 2010 at 5:27 pm
Bud’s just like the stopped clock! Even a stopped clock is right twice a day!
January 20th, 2010 at 7:09 am
The Walgreen’s issue went ahead 6-3. Although I am against the further erosion of that neighborhood, the discussion on the council floor was refreshingly professional for the most part. The traffic engineer was able to point out that the changes proposed would reduce the bottlenecks, although I expect the two left-turns in and out of the revised Edwards street could well increase the accident count. It was not professional of him to use the old accident count data of 77 when the more recent 138 and 134 data has been available for some time.
But, the classification of that area as commercial some time in the past set the stage for this problem. It may be wise to review the zoning for all such areas in the city before the next “Walgreen’s” comes this far.