First of all, there's a public meeting Tuesday at 7 as part of the corridor study that's being done by RDG Planning and Design. This meeting will cover Brady, Harrison, and Welcome Way. It will be held in the Parking/Design Center at 2nd and Brady.
I might make it to the meeting, but I was also hoping to make a return to Bent River's $2 Burger Basket night. Maybe I can manage both.
Then I've found a couple of interesting (to me at least) maps on the city's website.
This first one shows all the streets that are "top priority" for salting during snow and ice events. Its just another one of those things that the city takes care of that people only notice if its not done well.
Finally, here's a map of the historic districts in Davenport. There are more of them than you might think, and they're pretty widely spread around town. Unsurprisingly, there are none North of Kimberly, and the way we build things out there, probably never will be.
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Was Rockingham and River Drive taken out of the corridor study?
Rockingham was relegated to little sister-brother position.River Drive is a seperate proposal.
I think that the consultants are looking at the three corridor areas separately to start. The meeting next week is the first.
On the Rockingham Corridor portion, I do know that they are including the West Central Davenport Business District area. I'm looking forward to the process.
Shelley is correct. That's why I said "This meeting will cover Brad, Harrison, and Welcome Way."
I really hope this includes the South of Locust part of Brady and Harrison Streets.
To Keith Meyers: Next week council will be voting on acceptance of the skate park. With all the cracking problems already, has city legal made sure we have a written contract with a guarantee for a stated amount of years incase there is a costly repair in the future? The skate park hasn't gone through a rough winter yet, nor has it seen a flood. Before we accept this Expensive skate park, we need to be assured that the taxpayers are protected.
The zoo is another taxpayer money pit that should be closed. Now we are going to spend close to $200,000 for 2 restrooms, and a walkway from the lower to the upper zoo. This is another amenity that gets very little use; we closed it once, and it's time to do it again.
Tell me just one reason why this Administration should care whether the taxpayers are protected or not on future skate park repairs.
Keith
Some of you folks won't be happy until the only thing to do in Davenport is watch TV.
I might suggest that any Administration that doesn't protect the taxpayers should be fired. In the real world where the rest of us work, each of us is held accountable. No matter what company each of us work for, if we fowl up and cost the company some profit, we are terminated. It's simple: Accountability. Something that doesn't seem to matter when you work at a desk at City Hall.
There is actually only two things that it takes to make us happy QCI, TV and our daily fix of Jim Fisher. :)
It should come to no surprise to anyone that the new skate park is cracking already for a couple reasons. Years ago, the city built a swimming pool at Cork Hill that looked simular in structure to the skatepark. That pool cracked and leaked like Niagra Falls, so finially the city was so frustrated, that they filled it in and sodded over it. Second reason for not being surprised that the skate park is cracking is that in the design phase, the little old lady that comes to council with the funny hats said that when she was a kid 80 years ago, that the land we were going to build a skatepark on, used to be the city landfill. You can bet she was correct, as the new parking ramp did some settling not far from there and cracked when it was being built, and that was a landfill site.
Why does Davenport have an neighborhood program/map like Rock Island and Moline? That's one step to making neighborhoods south of SOLO stronger.
A map isn't ordinance enforcement, infrastructure repairs or grants to low-income home homeowners for repairs, but if that's all we can get, fine, it's something.
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