Downtown Street Changes In The Works
I’m a little slow getting some stories online, but here you go…
The City of Tacoma would like to make a few changes to the flow of our downtown streets. What are the changes? 1. St. Helens street would change from two way to one way with traffic heading up the hill. 2. Broadway between 7th and 9th would change from one way to two way. The change precedes the beginning of LID work set to begin soon both on Broadway and in the St. Helens neighborhood.
From the News Tribune:
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“The proposed changes would improve safety for drivers and pedestrians, allow for more angle parking on Broadway, improve traffic circulation into and out of downtown and help connect the downtown core to the Stadium District, officials say.” |
A first reading of the changes should go before the City Council on December 12th. Thoughts?
Link to The News Tribune
5 comments
D drizell February 11, 2009
Not surprising at all. For me, this is a sign that there may yet be hope for this property. After all, the only thing ProLogis was proposing was a giant warehousing park with about 3 or 4 low-income jobs per acre. Tacoma can surely do better than this. Let’s hope that property owners have a little bit more vision next time around.
A altered Chords February 11, 2009
Hoping BNSF has a vision for Tacoma? Does BNSF give a rats hoot for Tacoma?
500 jobs and 1.5 mil in tax revenue is arguably better than 0 jobs and 0 tax revenue.
This city needs job creation more than anything else I can think of.
T Thorax O'Tool February 11, 2009
Then let’s plow it down and hire folks to run an organic, petroleum-free farm in the center of town. Not only does it use the lad productively, but farming without the aid of oil is insanely more labor-intensive… thus jobs.
And being organic and stuff gets us extra Al Gore Points®
K Ken February 11, 2009
I’d love to see a farm here, but find it difficult to imagine a superfund site ever earning the ’100% Organic’ label.
Incidentally, I was tooling around today and walked up a hill on the edge of Oakland/Madrona just above TPU. From that knoll there is a great view of the valley that this site is. Vaste open space, completely unused except for the occasional dirt bikers and homeless camps. It would be really fun to have an imagine tacoma session around this space. Boe?
T Thorax O'Tool February 11, 2009
You’d be amazed on what the FDA will qualify as organic. I believe that even lowly Tagro gets FDA organic certification.
And the requirements for Al Gore Points® is even lower. So low that a coal mine can qualify.
Now imagine how sweet that land could be as Point Defiance II.
Not that folks in the South End don’t already have Wapato, Wapato Hts, Alling, Harmon, SERA and Swan Creek….