From the Email InBox: Concern about Council Action

The Council would not approve Barney's project until they determined who owned the alley and who would maintain it.

Come to find out the City owned it and didn't know it.

The Town Center traffic study will be included in it's E.I.R. Now who do you think will conduct those studies. The State conducts one also and according to Schwab and Jacobson, if the State says the traffic impact would be too great for the City to bare the project can't go forth. Any bets.

The West end of the T/C has the driveway for the library and truck traffic which are one and the same, next to the entrance and exit for the T/C on Michigan. These driveways are directly across from Commerce Way that will become the off ramp for the freeway that the city says they will construct in 05-06 per the April 28 Staff Report minutes at a cost of about $6,000,000. Now picture if you will the traffic from the freeway wanting to turn left on Michigan to get to Barton Rd. The vehicle traffic wanting to turn left from Michigan to get into the T/C and the library including big rigs. Then there will be the traffic exiting the T/C onto Michigan wanting to turn left and right. So what say we drop a bunch of kids in the middle of all this going home from school, driving home from the High School and just "hanging out".

It's O.K. They don't belong to Jocobson or a Council member so they are dispensable. Maybe one of the day laborers will be hired by the city as a chaperon to guard the small ones from being run down by a truck that didn't see them because he was trying to beat the traffic to turn into or out of the T/C.

Now lets salt the mix with the traffic that will be coming from the High Grove 2400 housing project and all the dignitaries that will be rushing to use the amenities at the new Water Company building. We won't have to worry about the Skating Rink because no matter what Schwab says it will be gone as will the other business's on Commerce for the new well thought out off ramp that is for no other purpose than to direct traffic into the OAC.

Oh did I forget to menition the OAC with it's twenty thousand vehicle trips a minute. That will most likey have no impact either, anyway no impact on where Schwab and the Council live and that's all that matters.

I'm sure if the City can find Megna he'll be more than glad to work it out with Koontz and Schwab. Just fork over a few more hundred thousand to Megna and Koontz, and his company he works for the other three days of the week.

Nolte Engineering. Developers must have put out the word that anything in Grand Terrace can be bought especially City Hall, but only west of Honey Hills. The only place safe to live will be Honey Hill's. Now I wonder why I didn't think of that sooner.