DESIGN (Develop the East Side Including Guidance from Neighbors)

November 18 meeting

Nov 13, 1999

It's time to help the Press-Telegram and City Hall to know why neighhorhoods matter.

Superficial reports ignoring consequential impacts need to be corrected. You can help, Nov. 18.

The appearance of the new K-Mart that no one living in the area appears to want is not the problem. However, such superficial remarks (without reporting the significant concerns that were noted about impacts) were all that was quoted in the October 29 issue of the Press-Telegram.
For whatever reason, that article omitted the following comments about the development:

?• $4 million of sales-tax rebates are being diverted from
other needs for that project;
?• a Sept. 1st fax and e-mail follow-ups sent to K-Mart?’s
headquarters are unanswered;
?• residents don?’t like dog-killing stores;
?• many residents plan to boycott K-Mart;
?• lights from the car dealers are damaging the quality of
life of adjacent homeowners;
?• the City is not following the part of the contract that
protects our quality of life;
?• the screening to block headlights that the developers said
he would do, isn?’t done.

Residents have a chance to be heard at the Nov. 18 (Thursday) DESIGN meeting. The Press-Telegram, a paper that many of us still buy and read, said that they are interested in hearing constructive input from us about K-Mart.
Residents want to know why our local newspaper failed to report that residents have been losers in the K-Mart deal. We have an unwanted K-Mart sign as the gateway to our neighborhoods, will have more traffic, lost sleep from predawn construction, and have suffered from dust damage. Thurs., Nov. 18, is your chance to inform the press about our concerns.