Oct 23 2007

Audio of final Charrette Presentation

3 Responses to “Audio of final Charrette Presentation”

1. # cynthia levesqueon 23 Oct 2007 at 11:54 am

   It may be too late, but I attended the meeting for core village residents and was dismayed at the way the meeting was conducted. It was wrong of you not to control the meeting so as to discourage booing as occured at the meeting I attended.

   Aside from that, I believe that Jamestown needs to have a vision that 1) cleans up the waterfront; 2) provides for services for local residents; 3) provides for a SENIOR CENTER and a safe walking path; 3) enforces parking; 4) stops business expansion unless they can provide for their own parking. As for affordable housing? I want to see some type of relief for long time residents who have reached senior status (65 years old) so that we can remain in our homes without having to face ever increasing taxes. I do not want to pay for affordable housing for off islanders. I do not want to see ticky tacky houses in the village center which is already crowded. I do not want to see creeping commercialism. The town is now faced with a building that is in a light commercial area and is a heavy commercial enterprise. What’s up with that? I feel sorry for the abutters who will have to listen to large trucks moving to and from the building. Let’s start to enforce building codes please. Until these issues (including water and sewer) are settled, we can do nothing about building more residences. We can, however, encourage the town to be cleaned up and kept clean by the businesses on Narragansett Avenue.

2. # Steve Meccaon 31 Oct 2007 at 10:21 am

   I was away on business and unable to attend any meeting, but here’s my input.

   1) The downtown area has massive parking problems. All types of vehicles, especially large delivery trucks (beer, soda, food service etc.) regularly ignore the signs and park illegally on the side streets to make their deliveries to the various restaurants and bars in town. Police do not enforce the parking regulations, and this causes streets to be obstructed and unsafe for pedestrians and vehicles turning in and out of these streets; not enough room for emergency vehicles either. Solutions to this problem: a) widen Narragansett Ave slightly (already too narrow for parking on both sides plus two lanes of traffic) and designate a couple of centrally located parking spaces for “Delivery Only” in the morning hours…Newport has done this for many years on Thames St; b) Police MUST enforce parking regulations; c) Do not allow any business expansion downtown unless they can provide offstreet parking on their own property; d) consider building a multilevel parking garage to alleviate parking problems.

   2) Throw out the flawed, biased (in favor of businesses), and useless noise ordinance passed last year that only protects noise makers and create a new one that is fair to the recipients of the noise.

   3) Create a new ordinance that disallows engine idling for more than 1 minute. Delivery trucks generate an enormous amount of unnecessary pollutants and noise when their engines are idling.

3. # swordsman11on 11 Apr 2008 at 1:56 am

   I had easy time reading your blog. But it seems now it’s over . Man, this post sucks. I hope at least the next one won’t be.

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