Comments on: Mayor Hotline December 5 to 11 https://boiseguardian.com/2009/12/14/mayor-hotline-december-5-to-11/ A different slant on the news. Tue, 03 Jan 2012 20:49:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Gary https://boiseguardian.com/2009/12/14/mayor-hotline-december-5-to-11/#comment-15977 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 20:48:08 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=3912#comment-15977 RE: Mr. Sajjapongse’s call to the mayor about his Micron commute

A decade ago I signed off on the indirect routing of Warm Springs Ave. at Barber after the East Park Center Bridge was built. It is meant to encourage Harris Ranch traffic to use the Park Center route into town to minimize traffic on Warm Springs Ave. Otherwise, people who live on side streets like Granite Way might have real difficulty getting onto Warm Springs in the morning.

As Google Maps shows, from Granite Way, it is both shorter and quicker to take Warm Springs west to Broadway & either I-84 or Federal Way to get to Micron! Also, there are several bike routes from Granite Way to Micron just about as fast with a lot less hassle.

BTW, I think my name should be on the East Park Center Bridge plaque! As ACHD commissioners, Susan Eastlake and I insisted that the bridge, financed by the developer, be underway before Harris Ranch could build more than 419 homes. Even though saying “no” to developers probably cost me my seat in that growth-at-any-cost environment, that requirement stuck—as did the requirement that all future arterials and collectors incorporate the (expensive) extra width for bike lanes.

I think the plan to encourage development of the non-ag land southeast of Boise—made before I arrived in the late-70s—is one of the smartest planning decisions this community has made. Park Center and its bridges are an integral part of that plan.

Namasté,
Gary

Gary E. Richardson
746 Santa Paula Ct
Boise ID 83712-6564

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]]> By: The Boise Picayune https://boiseguardian.com/2009/12/14/mayor-hotline-december-5-to-11/#comment-15976 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 16:44:58 +0000 https://boiseguardian.com/?p=3912#comment-15976 Recently, The Boise Picayune ran an exclusive story about the Mayor and City Council quietly sitting on over a Half a Million Dollars in Emergency Homelessness Prevention funds (later co-opted by the AP, Statesman and a couple of local Infotainment – formerly known as the “news” – broadcasts).

The Boise Picayune has received as-of-yet unsubstantiated reports – rumors – that, managed by Council Member Pro Tem Alan Shealy, City Hall has been quietly sitting on Millions of Dollars in Federal and State Funds meant for rapid disbursement. Money such as the $533,411 in Federal Stimulus money they had been sitting on since June.

Reasons given include preoccupation with propaganda efforts on behalf of the Mayor’s pet trolley project to sinister financial shenanigans such as parking the money in Interest Bearing Accounts and Short Term Investments and using the interest to fund those and other propaganda efforts in an Iran-Contraesque maneuver.

One can only hope these rumors are false and without merit.

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