Brady, Harrison Meeting Tuesday at 7 pm
The City's Design Center will host a public meeting at 7 pm Tuesday, regarding study of the Brady/Harrison corridor. The Design Center is located at 102 East Second at the corner of East Second and Brady. This corridor is, obviously, a key for our city. A number of strong anchors presently exists: our riverfront, downtown, SAU, Palmer, City Schools, Vanderveer Park, Northpark, I-80, and some strong residential neighborhoods. The key will be filling the voids that exist along this stretch. In my January survey, on this blog, this corridor ranked first for importance, with regard to revitalization (57%). To read the press release/invitation: click here. If you are unable to attend and wish to share comments, feel free to post on this blog or email me at ian@ianfrink.com and I'll be happy to share the comments with the study group.
posted by Ian Frink @ 10:29 PM
9 comments
9 Comments:
Ian, it seems that all the wrong business seem to be popping up all along this stretch. Bars, tattoo parlors, shady car lots, gas stations. Even the yards and sidewalks of the residents are dirty. Throughout the city there are open lots where folks are parking their cars for sale. Why couldn't these problems be addressed? Who is going after the cars parked for sale, who enforces the zoning laws in Davenport? If you want them to come, you better start cleaning up first.
Thanks for asking.
Good question, who enforces the zoning laws? Are they being proactive and how many inspectors do they have? I believe the old NEO used to do the enforcing for them. Could you please find out for us because I don't think it being done as of today.
Thank you for taking the time to answer. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for your posts. I went ahead and sent this into NEO --- to have them do a drive up Brady and down Harrison to identify an illegal selling of vehicles. For future reference the number to call is 326-6198.
I agree we need to clean up this corridor (on a number of fronts). The meeting the other night was a good first step. The process will take a number of months to complete - hopefully more will participate as it moves forward.
The QCI blog has a good review of the meeting (scroll down) on the main page: http://quadcityimages.blogspot.com/ - Ian
Ian,
Thank you for supporting the request from the fire department to enhance the NEO. It was truely needed and I can't wait to see the results. You are by far the best alderman we have because you listen. I hope you run again.
Fellow sixth warder
7:40 P.M. ... the Council is full of listeners. I would rather have someone vocal like Hamerlinck, Meyer, Ambrose and Lynn that ask questions and let you know where they stand with the issues. Hamerlink is the guy to praise. If you attend his ward meetings or talk to him on the phone, he explains the issue and isn't afraid to let you know where he stands. He will even tell you how he plans to vote and he keeps his word not like Barney who has been so wishy washy lately.
I like the guys that speak up and dig into a situation. 7:40, if you like listeners, you must be a huge Dumas fan!
Out
I like ones who speak up too, but it does not make sense to speak up and then vote against the good of the people.
8:51
You forgot Van Fossen, he is the last piece of the puzzle. The missing link as to say. Then you would have all those who will be looking to start gardening classes come after the next election. Thanks for you input 9 (wo)man
Ian,
Just wondering if you or any of the other aldermen attended Braley's open house at the Figge yesterday. If so, how did Braley do and were there any good questions asked of him about Davenport?
Anon. 5:21,
I was not able to attend, due to previous commitments, so I am unable to offer a report. I'm not sure if any of my colleagues made it down. I do plan to make it to DC next month for the QC lobbying trip. - Ian
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