La Crosse resident, Obbie King, has put together a very excellent and telling video about what happens when a giant corporation eats a neighborhood for parking. Please watch and share.
There Goes the Neighborhood
Today, Livable Neighborhoods came out against this planned demolition for parking as has the Powell-Poage-Hamilton Neighborhood Association and other neighborhood associations. Reportedly, some residents of homes scheduled for demolition first heard about this when they received notices to vacate!
The city has sustainability plans up one side and down the other, but that apparently all goes out the window when a giant (think Gundersen, Mayo, UWL, LHI) hiccups.
If we are to have a sustainable future, we must have in place AND FOLLOW sustainable practices, plans and policies. Having neighborhood plans and then dropping them so suddenly when a rich business whistles is similar to the DNR's decisions to ignore endangered and threatened species protections by issuing "takings" permits to the giant powerline businesses seeking to despoil our countryside with giant, dangerous and unneeded (but lucrative to the builders) high voltage power lines.
If you are able to write to your city council representative about this unsustainble development, (you can write to everyone at once through this email address: zzcouncilmembers@cityoflacrosse.org) please consider doing so as soon as possible, because this issue has nearly reached the finish line with little publicity or public input. If you are able to attend the council's April 14 meeting (no public hearing unless the council votes to permit it), please do. The meeting is in the Council Chambers, First Floor of City Hall, at 7:30 p.m. and as of now - two days before the meeting, no agenda has been published yet. - cathy
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