More ‘strange’ campaign materials by Erpenbach. Even if she is suggesting the RR development area will be considered a ‘quiet’ development, she fails to mention that the area will still be surrounded by RR tracks, the landing path airspace for the airport, and when those two things are not rattling the dishes in the kitchen cabinet (I should know, I live about 5 blocks South of the area) there is the pleasant Avera chopper flying over. So once again, thanks for baffling us Michelle with your made up ‘issues’.
Someone asked me the other day what has been Michelle’s biggest weakness as councilor, and I said, “That’s easy, she rarely responds to constituents when they call on her.”
Hey, peeps, Michelle knows who butters her bread, and it ain’t the lowly whiners of the Central District (snark).
Why would anyone living downtown expect their neighborhood to be a quiet zone?
So the rail yard location is going have multiple lanes of traffic now to ease congestion? Will only electric cars be allowed to drive through the quite zone?
None of the seven councilors who were present at Tuesday’s Council meeting had the guts to pull from the Consent Agenda the $200,000 for “an appraisal of an appraisal” regarding the Railroad Relocation Project so that it could be discussed publicly. My question as a taxpayer is WHY??
We may have gotten the answer inadvertently from Councilor Erpenbach at last nite’s candidate forum. Twice she alluded to the possibility that the cost of the project is going to exceed the $35 million FEDERAL EARMARK. The Council would then have to decide if they would supplement the $35 million with local tax dollars, something ALL OF THEM in the past have said they are not willing to do.
The use of local tax dollars for this project would be highly controversial. Remember, this is $35 million for 10 acres of land. And, contrary to what a lot of citizens believe, only 3 out of the 5 railroad tracks will be removed.
So, are Michelle’s Central District Downtown Residents unhappy with the train whistles at 2:00 a.m. and being under the flight path for the airport? Oh well, guess they should have researched all that before they moved in. Isn’t that what everyone’s been telling the residents who live near 85th and Minnesota!
She might want to be more concerned by the 10 businesses in a three block stretch of Phillips Avenue that are either already vacant, going out of business, or have soon-to-retire owners.
Perhaps construction of Lloyd’s “cookie-cutter” apartment buildings in the downtown area is actually “masking” real trouble with retail downtown.
And, BTW, none of the other candidates for the Council (Dunn, Erickson, Kiley, Pierson, Reistroffer, Steele) have done their homework on the Railroad Relocation Project which was very obvious by the responses they gave at last nite’s candidate forum!!
According to the article in the argus, only erpbucket and Rolfing favor the spellerburg site. Can a new council vote to change the location of an indoor pool?
I’ve lived downtown for several years and have never expected downtown to be a quiet zone. I also don’t know any of our neighbors that feel that way.
Who’s saying that downtown should be a quiet zone?
Sounds like a manufactured “problem” to me.