Item 18 on next Tuesday’s city council agenda is a good one.
Train wreck dealt with the real estate issues the city had with tearing down city hall and building the ball park. The fact is that the city committed to the actions without owning all of the land that city hall sat on. The city had to make some deals with the railroad.
The railroad gave the city an option to buy a parking lot next to the new city hall on the condition that the city agree to close eight more railroad crossings. City council approved the deal. The citizens be damned. Well maybe not dammed but dammed, as in blocked from flowing through.
Now the city has decided that in light of the fact that the citizens don’t want the closures and that the closures would cause public safety and traffic problems maybe exercising the option would not be a good idea.
It might also be that we have new members on city council who remember the 74% drubbing that the voters administered in the last election.
The city will be notifying the railroad that it will not exercise it’s option. Why now? It looks to me like someone is cleaning up the messes.
We might also be seeing the quiet hand of our new mayor here. I hope so.
We deserve better
Brutus
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