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Gardens for Grand Avenue Mall?
March 31st, 2010 at 1:13 pmI think a lot of commentary misses the point on this idea. I would return to shop at Grand Avenue FOR THE FOOD. Not to walk past the green while I look for some other goods or services. So, make the food the store. The Grand Avenue Greenhouses and Grocery Store. We need fresh local food options year-round. Urban agriculture. This is a growing market that is untapped in downtown Milwaukee. I LOVE IT!
S. 2nd Street Redesign Approved by the Common Council
December 23rd, 2009 at 2:17 pmWow.
S. 2nd Street Street Re-design Approved at Committee
December 10th, 2009 at 11:11 amHip hip hooray!
Streets are for People
December 9th, 2009 at 10:16 amI am pleased to report that the DPW Committee approved the S. 2nd Street Plan with a vote of 4 -1 in favor. Next up, the Common Council. Assuming approval, the project is scheduled to commence in mid-July and be completed by December, 2010. Very very exciting indeed. Thanks to all those who advocated along the way.
Streets are for People
December 8th, 2009 at 7:43 pmOver the past two days nearly 100 residents and business owners (representing hundreds more not in attendance) who live on and near S. 2nd Street have met to engage in public discourse about the proposed plans for S. 2nd Street. These meetings have been the culmination of many, many prior meetings from which the plans were developed. We bring commercial, residential, industrial, planning, economic, and politic interests, ideas and perspectives to the debate. We live here. We work here. We invest here. We are all generally reasonable, engaged citizens with fairly informed points of view. We are liberal, conservative and in between. We come from all walks of life. We have struggled with tough choices and made difficult compromises. Polling shows that somewhere between 80% -90% of us now support the proposed plan, for a multitude of diverse reasons. Take whatever position you will, but as members of this neighborhood, we have taken our responsibilities as citizens seriously and have held representatives of our government accountable to us. While I don’t personally love every piece of the plan, I am proud of the outcome and the process that created it. This is what democracy looks like. Tomorrow the DPW committee makes a final decision on the proposed reconstruction and then the recommendation advances to the Common Council later this month to be made official. I, for one, can’t wait to see this community vision realized.
Streets are for People
November 30th, 2009 at 5:17 pmThank you for this update Dave. A fundamental falsehood contained in opposition to this plan is that it will reduce motor vehicle convenience. This is simply untrue. If you spend anytime on the street, as I do daily, you can clearly see that there is limited vehicle traffic for most times of day, and, even during peak times (start and end of work days) there is rarely traffic in both lanes of any significance. More important than my layperson anecdotal analysis, state traffic codes, and corresponding analysis clearly support the reduction to one auto lane. These are codes that are written almost entirely to support motor vehicular traffic, taking very little else into account. These standards were applied to rigorous and repeated traffic counts conducted by traffic engineers that resulted in the current plan design. So, this is a plan that honors and maintains vehicle traffic. This is a plan that costs less. This is a plan that repairs dramatic surface AND subsurface problems to dramatically improve the roadway. Yet, still there are knee-jerk, factually unfounded assertions in opposition. Its so myopic. This is a plan that let’s everyone win. Even cars.