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Jenifer St. Driveway Committee letter - 01/28/11On Friday, Jan. 28th, the following letter was e-mailed to members of the Ad Hoc Driveway Committee. (For details about the Committee and the driveway onto Jenifer St., please see the information in that section of our website.) If you have questions, comments or concerns about the driveway onto Jenifer St., please let us know in one of the following ways:
Dear Committee Members, To allow this committee to focus their energies successfully, we have honed this list of our commitments regarding the driveway's use before, during, and after construction. Before our next meeting, we're hoping you'll have time to review these and think of other criteria, objectives or input you'd like us to consider around the driveway's use. BEFORE CONSTRUCTION (March 14th, 2011–April 11th, 2011)
DURING CONSTRUCTION (April 12th, 2011–November ??, 2011, or actual end of construction)
AFTER CONSTRUCTION
We propose meeting at 6:30pm on Tuesday, February 15th at the office at 1882 E. Main Street. Please let us know if you will be able to attend by Wednesday, February 2nd by emailing us at or calling (608) 237-1217 and we'll confirm this date with everyone by February 3rd. Thank you again and we look forward to continuing to serve you during the long summer while Williamson Street goes through a major transformation. Respectfully submitted, Updated - January 31, 2011
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regarding the driveway on
regarding the driveway on jenifer-
as community valued as the near east is for each other, surely, as a school might do, lets set up patrol volunteers to help with traffic exiting and entering during its most busiest time- 330p-530p. WS barters with members to stock shelves, we should seek members for helping with congestion- enlist the services of a local teen group or club to do as a community service- scouts, high/middle school. church group-= they all need to give community hours.
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This is Lynn Olson, Director
This is Lynn Olson, Director of Cooperative Services
To answer your question re: using volunteers to monitor traffic in the driveways. This is an excellent idea. We have planned to monitor both driveways to help us determine future use, however we cannot enlist the help of volunteers (because we're not a not-for-profit), but we're checking to see if there's a local non-profit that would be interested in coordinating this.
Thank you,
LynnO
scouts, church group, school,
scouts, church group, school, Community Center like the Wil-Mar Center, arts org- i think if WS folks brainstormed, we could organize a non profit(s) to offer services in exchange for community bucks or as part of their community giving.
Question - during
Question - during construction, how do you plan to monitor each driveway? I'm sure the on-going comment period will supply feedback and be taken into account, but I'd like to know more about the plan to effectively monitor the driveways during construction.
Good work Willy Street Co-op! You're the best! Keep up the excellent work!
Thank you for your
Thank you for your encouragement, together with our Manager's on Duty, Store Managers and other staff - we will be making routine visits throughout the day to each of the driveways and observing the flow of traffic. When/if there is congestion or impacts relating to the driveways we have a system set up to record these instances for later use in analyzing the driveway's effects.
Lynn Olson, Director of Cooperative Services
It sounds like the co-op
It sounds like the co-op management has the driveway well
thought out. Why have a committee?
This is Brendon Smith, Willy
This is Brendon Smith, Willy Street Co-op Director of Communications responding.
Thanks for your question. When we had our parking lot and driveway project informational meeting on Aug. 16, 2010, one of the excellent ideas the meeting generated was to create this committee. In our Aug. 19 update, we pledged to establish "an ad hoc committee of concerned individuals who represent the interests of neighboring businesses, residents, as well as city staff to evaluate the long-term impacts and management of the Jenifer St. driveway."
The committee has met three times; meeting minutes are posted on our FAQ page here.
The ad hoc committee was
The ad hoc committee was never anything more than a sham. If that wasn't obvious before, it is now. But, I do want to thank the committee members (many of whom have resigned) for their sincere effort at trying to represent the community's concerns to an uncaring Coop.
How many committee members
How many committee members resigned and why?
Brendon Smith, Director of
Brendon Smith, Director of Communications for Willy Street Co-op responding:
Lindsey Lee, who was asked to be on the Committee to represent the Greater Williamson Area Business Association, resigned from the Committee in early November, 2010. In his resignation letter, he stated, "I will not be able to continue to serve on the ad hoc committee. I need to spend the new year focusing on road construction."
Lindsey was the only Committee member to resign.
Move to the backcountry. You
Move to the backcountry.
You live in a city. Near a commercial district. You knew that. You benefit from that.
Get real.
Right, because making the
Right, because making the parking lot and Williamson St. traffic safer is horrible for the community... um, what?