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Wilbanks, Megan
From:Richard Schmidt <slobuild@yahoo.com>
Sent:Monday, July 4,
To:E-mail Council Website
Subject:Agenda correspondence -- public comment
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Dear Council,
I have written many times regarding how the current Anholm bike plan (involving massive residential parking removal) will
make our neighborhood unlivable and dysfunctional, and it appears you just don't care enough to fix it. I have no idea
what staff whispers in your ears to overcome what I'm sure is common sense and human decency I believe each and
every one of you to innately possess.
So, here's yet another example of how your planned assault on the livability of our neighborhood plays out.
Last week a residence on Broad had a large delivery of stone. This is life in any residential neighborhood. Deliveries
happen regularly.
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The truck is parked in a parking lane that will disappear with your bike plan. It took considerably more than one hour to
unload.
So how does this work if the parking lane, used pretty much all the time by residents, becomes a bike lane used by maybe
as many as a couple of dozen cyclists per day? How do people get deliveries? Where does the plumber park? Where
does the tree trimmer park the chipper he must use to do his work? Where does the moving truck park? Where do
residents park when the house just beyond the one shown above becomes a dormitory for 10-12-14 students, with all 3
garages converted to ADUs (this is really happening!) and because of the bike plan there are half as many parking spaces
as at present when all are often in use?
Do you truly not care?
There are good alternatives to what you're planning on doing. There are safer alternatives for bicyclists. There are much
cheaper alternatives that would free up funds for other things. There are more environmentally responsible plans. There
are plans that don't destroy our neighborhood.
Why the resistance to doing what's right instead of insistently pursuing what's wrong?
I just don't get it.
Sincerely,
Richard Schmidt
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