Taking government to the citizens, vs making them go downtown (where the meters are still stalked when the Council meetings begin), is a spendid idea.

Several of you should compliment the City Council for this approach and ask that it continue for at least 4 meetings per year.

Visitors would leave the airport and as they crest The Bench, they will be met by a 200 foot tall Dave Bieter that straddles Capitol Blvd. He will have his chin up and in his hands shall be a Golden Trolley Car. The library shall be housed within this great monument.

Wish we could be a Google town with free wifi everywhere, everywhere. How can we make that happen? Anybody know?

Like the bridge to nowhere in Alaska, suggest national exposure and embarrassment for the $70M handout to political developer friends. These are the same people who are raising rates on absolutely everything.

Listen carefully to them. Bullshit with every breath. Their entire existence is bullshit. They say bullshit so often they believe their own bullshit. They pay the media to bullshit for them. They have social gatherings where they congratulate each other on the quality of their bullshit.

Regarding the library… when they were planning a branch library in my neighborhood (Hillcrest), I was skeptical. I thought the day of the printed book was dead. Lo and behold, my mind has been changed! Whenever I visit that branch, it’s full of patrons engaged in various activities including book-reading. I routinely reserve books, movies, CDs, etc. online, and pick them up a few days later at the branch. (I have reservations about spending $75 million or whatever, for a new main library. Maintain it as the book/media warehouse, with branch libraries scattered about as end-user access points. That would be good for reducing commuter traffic, as well.)

A Bike Park in Military Reserve will greatly increase walker, dog and bike conflicts in an already heavily used and congested area.

The Dog Park will removed to the Archery site, and shrunk to less than half the current size, and sub-divided into small and large dogs areas basically – with not enough space for people with medium or large dogs to exercise their dogs. This will all result in a lot more people and dog use all around the sensitive areas of lower Cottonwood Creek and the uplands where the new Idaho rare plant, Andrus’ Lomatium lives. It is found nowhere else in the world except a small area of the Boise Foothills.
And no matter how many “Stay on Trails” signs and little fences the City puts up, you can be darn sure the Bikes will be running all over the place tearing things up, and creating hazards for walkers.

At the City meeting last night, we were handed little blue dots as we walked in the door, and directed to place them on displays that showed Happy Dogs running or jumping through bright plastic things. There were several of these. Not a single Display to place a little blue dot on “No Bike Park here. Keep the Dog Area the same size” as the “amenity” to choose. The City’s whole method of getting Input on their Deal was rigged.

I have talked to folks who were involved in getting the Dog Park established, and involved in dog-Foothills measures over the years – and they say they had repeatedly approached the City to “upgrade” the Dog park, and were told “No, no, no. That Basin is strictly for Flood Control, and no structures can be placed there”. So the City in the past took federal funds and likely used tax dollars for the Flood Control pits, where the Dog Park and Archery Range area are located, and now they want to put structures there.

Also, the City’s scheme is to move the Archery Range (the new location of the shrunken Dog Park) to an Open Space area just south of the Old Vets Cemetery – marring the scenic views and setting of the cemetery.