Meet your councilperson.

Passing along from City Council member Karl Skala:

Please JOIN ME this SATURDAY Morning, NOVEMBER 1, for
        OFFICE HOURS at the CHERRY STREET ARTISAN!
        (I'M MOVING!*)

        3RD WARD CITY COUNCILMAN KARL SKALA

WHERE?  Cherry Street Artisan, 11 S. 9th Street, Ste 10,
        Downtown (parking across Cherry in the 8th & Cherry
        Parking Garage)

WHEN?   8:30-10:30 a.m. 

DATES?  November 1 & 22 (Substitute date: Nov 15 has been
        cancelled**)

WHO?    Everyone is welcome.  Drop in and share your questions,
        opinions, ideas, and concerns!

ANNOUNCEMENTS!  

*Please note the new location!  Much to my dismay, the Coffee
Ground has gone out of business. That means no locally owned
coffee shops remain in the Third Ward, so ... I'M MOVING my
office hours to the CHERRY STREET ARTISAN!

http://www.gocolumbiamo.com/Council/index.php
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** Nov 22 is a substitute date since I will be attending the
National League of Cities Leadership Training Institute and
Congress of Cities Meeting in Orlando, FL (11/10 - 11/15)
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I’ll try and make it this weekend – hope to see you there!

Jim Downey

Revisions to the City’s Major Roadway Plan?

I received this information from the city the other day:

The City Council has directed the City Planning & Zoning Commission to
consider a number of revisions to the City’s Major Roadway Plan. These
revisions are primarily additional roadway segments that have been added
to the Columbia Area Transportation Study Organization (CATSO) Major
Roadway Plan (MRP) since 2005. Included are a number of existing Boone
County collector streets, and nine proposed local non-residential
streets in the Route 763 (Rangeline Street) corridor that are now
included on the CATSO MRP. 

Also to be considered is the proposed removal of one street from the
City’s MRP - the future extension of Cunningham Road, from its current
terminus north of Bray Avenue to Rollins Road. A map and spreadsheet of
the proposed revisions to the Roadway Plan are included with this
message.

A public hearing on this item is scheduled for Thursday, October 23,
2008 at 7:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, City Building, 701 East
Broadway, Columbia, Missouri.  You are invited to attend and comment on
any of the proposals on or before the public hearing date. After the
public hearing, the Commission will forward its recommendations to the
City Council.  The City Council will then have a public hearing, usually
25 days after the Commission’s public hearing, and will take final
action on the proposed revisions.

A staff report on the proposed Major Roadway Plan revisions will be
available on Friday, October 17, 2008, at:

http://www.gocolumbiamo.com/Planning/Commissions/PZ/PZCAgenda102308.php

This notice is being mailed to all neighborhood association contact
persons.  You are welcome to review information on this proposal at the
City Planning and Development office, which is located on the second
floor of the City Building (701 East Broadway, Columbia, MO), or you may
call Mitch Skov, Senior Planner, at (573) 874-7243 for additional
information.

There ya go – there’s nothing at that link yet, but it should be up by Friday if you are interested. I will unfortunately be out of town for the public hearing on the 23rd, but if anyone would like to attend and post information about it here, please feel free to do so!

Toodles -

Jim Downey

Three months from today . . .

Hey everyone!

Following our meeting with the reporters last week, there are several new irons in the fire.  More about those when things come to fruition.

But I wanted to give everyone advance notice of a social occasion: on New Years Day, 2009, Martha and I will be having an Open House here at our home, and all are welcome!  If you haven’t had a chance to see the house previously, this will be a good opportunity to check out the founding home for our neighborhood.  We’ll have food and drink and (probably, unless it is freakishly warm) a fire going, warm companionship, and would love it if you stopped by!  Let’s say anytime from Noon to Six PM – or as long as the party lasts.

So, put it on your calendar now – we’ll send out reminders and invitations later, but thought you might appreciate some advance notice to plan.

Toodles!

Jim Downey