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March 13, 2007
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Spnngfield Planning Comnussion
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':kuie Ballew, Resident
FROM
SUBJECT
Amendment to SDC Article 9, Vacations
The amendment to Spnngfield Development Code Article9, VacatIOns allows the
Spnngfield City Council to unilaterally remove public nght-of-way from general usage,
I e public streets, and use that nght-of-way for alternative publIc purposes Tms change
allows the City CouncIl to place an employee parkIng lot and a storage facility In the
rruddle ofB Street, between 4th Street and Pioneer Parkway East That change wIll mean
daily, over 1,000 velucles, mcludmg a bus, wIll be diverted to A or C Street for traffic to
connect to either Pioneer Parkway Assuming a 50% split, that means that at least 500
vemcles, Includmg the bus, will travel along C street, a reSidential street within the
Washburne Dlstnct
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I am very opposed to clOSing a concrete artenal so that less than 50 city employees can
have secured parkIng, particularly since the other 350 employees d6 not have that benefit
WillIe I support discretionary power for the CouncIl, I belIeve that their deCisions should
meet the same standards of Justification applIed to pnvate developers Allowing a pnvate
developer to close a public street to place a parking lot and a storage facility upon It
would reqUIre conSiderable weight of evidence to be an "allowed variation"
I hope that during your consideratIOn of this proposed change, you will reqUIre additional
conditIOns to be applIed to the deciSIOn-makIng process when a putlIc right-of-way is
approved for "alternatIve publIc purposes"
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Date Received:.-1j}J/;;,oo7
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