July 2014

Parking situation at the Events Center

l3wis July 17, 2014 9Comments

There has been plenty of talk about parking at the new EC site. Before a location was picked several parking studies showed that DTSF had more parking then the Arena location. How else can you get thousands of people DT for events like the Parade of Lights or Hot Summer Nights if parking wasn’t available?

Well that ship sailed, I guess Buffalo Wild Wings, Rollin’ Pin and Castaways are going to be able to fill the dining void before a concert 🙁

At the Mayor’s last Shut up and Listen session he said that the city has been exploring creative ideas for parking at the site, but NOT a parking ramp. He said it would be too expensive.

A South DaCola foot soldier told me last night that a football game scheduled for October 3, at Howard Wood Field (the same night of Jason Aldean) was moved.

The ONLY home game that night was WHS vs. Huron, the game will be played on the school’s field. Not sure if that was the game that was moved, but it is a little concerning that we feel like we can’t have multiple events going on in the complex area. So now we have to start shuffling around other events when a concert sells out at the new EC?

And that’s how you build a $100 million dollar Events Center.

South DaCola Fest

Are you a Freethinker?

l3wis July 16, 2014 2Comments

I have been asked to be the guest speaker at the local Freethinkers meeting Monday, July 28, 6:30 PM at the DT Main Library. I will be discussing City Government and Free Speech.

Come on down.

Art Event Center Sioux Falls

The city is purchasing art! Great! Wait . . .

l3wis July 15, 2014 4Comments

I am all for the city buying public art to put on display in our city (Item #35) but two things concern me about this ‘purchase’ (See the details: DSPC-Sculp). ~~First off, why isn’t the purchase of the sculpture coming from the EC budget?~~Â (correction; it IS coming from the EC budget) And secondly why are we not using a local artist?

It also mentions that there will be two other sculptures placed at the site, gee, I wonder what one of them will be? The third one I suspect will be an abstract piece made from the removed bad siding . . . speaking of the siding.

STAY OFF MY LAWN KIDS!

Last night me and some other rabble rousers went to the EC to look at the siding, I will keep my opinion to myself at this point of the ‘work’ that was done and the materials that were used. How does that saying go? Putting a square peg into a round hole?

As we were there a construction manager chased us off telling us it was still a construction site. Actually it is public property and all the safety signs and fences have been taken down. Funny how when the mayor was running for office, anybody could come out and ‘inspect’ the EC, but now that ourÂ ‘inspections’ are causing a headache soon to be PR nightmare, we get chased away.

Code Enforcement Sioux Falls

Get your ‘Boulevard’ on!

l3wis July 15, 2014 8Comments

The city is tired of NO consistency with boulevard landscaping in town (and those pesky decorative mailboxes). How dareÂ people allow their homes to look different then their neighbors. Better charge them with criminal nuisance! (I won’t get into that). So now they are suggesting a compromise of allowing up to 20% to be landscaped, and you have to get a permit from the city (never miss an opportunity to miss out on a pointless fee).

This is how I look at it. The city owns the boulevard, but the adjacent homeowner/business is responsible for maintaining it, they should be allowed to landscape it however they want to within reason, circumstance and how the area is zoned. If the city wants to TELL us how our boulevards should look, fine. You can come and mow them and trim trees in them. But since we are responsible for the maintenance, we should have a say in what goes in them.

Of course, in this document (DOC) they show a lot of bad examples. That is a whole other ball of wax, if someone isn’t maintaining it properly, then yes, they should have to. But telling people they can’t have flowers or painted green boulders (that one made me laugh) on property they maintain doesn’t make sense, seems they are getting their panties in a bunch over nothing. But since our city is run like a dictatorship, it doesn’t surprise me. Pretty soon they will start arresting people for not mowing their lawns.

Cartoon farts shit found Sioux Falls

Let’s go kayaking . . . in my toilet.

l3wis July 13, 2014 3Comments

Parking situation at the Events Center

Are you a Freethinker?

The city is purchasing art! Great! Wait . . .

Get your ‘Boulevard’ on!

Let’s go kayaking . . . in my toilet.

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