Archive for the ‘Public Meetings’ Category
Come out to City Hall today at 6:30 pm to watch City Council take their second vote on the Arlington Hike and Bike System Master Plan! See the facebook event. Wear your yellow support shirt! And join us early at 5:30 at Old School Pizza and Suds (603 W. Abram) for a short ride to [...]
Last night the City of Arlington Council Chambers were overflowing. Almost 100 people spoke – over 300 were in attendance. It was a long meeting with lots of amazing and inspiring speeches in support, and (as usual) plenty of misinformation, attacks, and ludicrous conspiracy theories in opposition. Last Night’s Outcome Council voted to approve the [...]
It’s finally happening – the City of Arlington City Council Public Hearing for the Hike and Bike System Master Plan will be held: Tuesday, June 28, 2011 6:30 pm Arlington City Hall 101 W. Abram Street Things to know about the meeting: wear yellow. Bring your Hike and Bike Plan support shirt if you have [...]
We’re posting another letter we sent to the opposition’s leader, Mr. Buddy Saunders. We look forward to a response. ########################################### Dear Mr. Saunders, On the eve of the Thoroughfare Development Plan public hearing our readership has forwarded us your SOS Update #57. We have read it and attached our analysis below. We request that [...]
We’re posting a letter we sent to the opposition’s leader, Mr. Buddy Saunders. We look forward to a response. ########################################### Dear Mr. Saunders, We have been forwarded a few of your SOS updates by our readership. Frankly, we find some, if not most of your statements misleading and others blatantly false. From Update #54 stems [...]
This past week the Council Subcommittee (formed to analyze the proposed hike and bike plan) was presented with their third option – Plan C – which actually adds some additional on-street bike routes back in. Only some though. While this is an improvement from Plan B, the amount of coverage and connectivity is still [...]
If you couldn’t make Monday’s subcommittee meeting, you may have read in the Star-Telegram article: “Arlington’s latest plan drastically cuts proposed on-street bike lanes“. This is no joke. The Plan presented by the Council Subcommittee is such a cutback from the Plan recommended by P&Z in February, it’s actually a regression from the 2002 bike route plan Council asked staff and the [...]
In case you missed last Thursday’s (03/31/2011) Tea Party Convention Town Hall Meeting let’s do a little recap. Despite support’s strong showing (3:1) at previous public meetings, the opposition put out a call to the local Tea Party and that helped make the room evenly split (despite opposition claims that they had 70%). But to those [...]
Below is a fleshed out version of the Star Telegram article covering Tuesday’s Town Hall meeting. If you were there at the meeting, and you read the original article, you know why we had to put our two cents in. Additions/corrections are in bold. *********************************************************** Arlington residents weigh in on bike paths Posted Tuesday, Mar. 29, 2011 ARLINGTON — [...]
Remember back in February when P&Z voted to recommend the Thoroughfare Development Plan and Hike & Bike Plan? That was great, wasn’t it? Oh the memories! Well, guess what. It’s not over yet, and we need you to show up again to support the plans at two Town Hall Meetings (see upcoming meetings to the [...]
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