Fayetteville and try not to cut any tree roots or put any pipes in grassy swales (aka) vegetated ditches.
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Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Mostly people who own or operate businesses or offices on Block Ave. show up early for presentation of three possible plans for gentrifying Block Ave.
Solution simple: Design the street specially for each business on Block Avenue or forget the whole gentrification project. Isn't this a Coody-era plan, anyway? Why would the staff be considering it now? Does gentrification still rate higher than convenience for customers of businesses and the safety of pedestrians and motorists? I listened, there is no consensus plan right now. Mix and match or leave Block Avenue alone! Go fix some broken up sidewalk in south
Fayetteville and try not to cut any tree roots or put any pipes in grassy swales (aka) vegetated ditches.
Fayetteville and try not to cut any tree roots or put any pipes in grassy swales (aka) vegetated ditches.
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You're an idiot.
Move to Winslow. This is a city.
Better yet, CONTRIBUTE something to this community instead of bitching about every little drop of rain that falls in your neighborhood.
Come on now, Aubrey, you know if they tried to fix a sidewalk in South Fayetteville, you'd be there with your camera, harrassing the workers and lamenting the "paving of Fayetteville".
Nothing in this city makes you happy. There are thousands of square miles of ditches and dirt roads just to your south. Move on out there.
The problem with the Block Avenue fancification isn't with me. The problem is that about every business owner along the street will lose some bit of convenience.
Such efforts downtown are supposed to make the streets and more attractive. But the businesses already situated there must not LOSE their customers because of the construction mess or a final product that makes access difficult.
That is what such meetings are for: City planners and engineers are listening and everyone can comment. They put a lot of work into what they come up with. But such changes cost a lot and revising them later cost even more. So please get to future meetings and suggest revisions that will satisfy the people who have invested there.
And any reduction in functional greenspace (areas where groundwater can be recharged) on that part of downtown will increase flooding of Tanglewood Branch and then Spout Spring Branch at Walker Park and then the eastern part of Town Branch and the West Fork of the White River.
The businesses who will lose their "private parking spots" don't actually have those "private parking spots". They are using city owned right of way to park in already, its just that no one has called them on it. Pretty generous to get free use of city right of way for the last 50 years if you ask me.
The overall effect will be an increase in available parking on Block Avenue, which should be a boon for all businesses there.
The law offices and barber shops that will use the spots during the daytime should not be harmed by the spots being filled up at night by diners and merrymakers.
One of the best parts of the plan is that they will bury some powerlines, allowing better views of our city's natural and architectural wonders. Trees will be planted where no trees currently exist. In the future, this will shade Block Street and mitigate some of the heat that the street gives off in the summer.
All in all, I personally don't find much to complain about with this plan.
I do applaud your vigilance to make sure we develop this city in an ecologically friendly manner. My advice is: pick your battles.
These improvements will benefit both business owners and the ecological health of our city, as well as beautify one of our best old streets.
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