To the Editor:
So Mayor Euille would have everyone believing he's not interested it selling or mortgaging City Hall. This coming from the man who is out to develop every piece of obsolete city property. A man who has constantly pushed through zoning changes to suit developers. Where the newly built building or housing is often triple or quadruple or greater than what was there before. This is the same man who has pushed out public housing for market rate (paying property taxes). Once the new Waterfront development begins and is completed, a parking crunch will commence like never before. The health department parking lot should have been converted to metered parking. You can argue no one would have parked there and it's an easy argument to make since parking enforcement and the police worked diligently to not allow people to park there on weekends and after the health department closed/moved.
Our roads are crumbling and yet all that ever gets paved are the same seven sections of roadway about every three years ... what the result of post civil war reconstruction legislation? That capital budget money would have gone a long way at fixing our road, repainting worn out crosswalks and fixing pedestrian signals that aren't facing the right direction.
The city pats its back on all the open space it has added over the last few years. It's all fenced athletic field which have varying permit use only signs. The tree huggers have over planted tree saplings at Tarelton Park ruining the dog exercise area. The playground when moved was to place it in a more open area for safety purposes, but as those tree grow, so much for that. Snow removal was much more efficient under Mayor Donley, but I believe the city's beloved Viola Lawson was more precisely responsible.
My vote will be for Allison.
Ruben "Bill" Duran