Lisa Pelletier — Monday, August 28, 2023 — Praise to the City Council: Save/improve the L Street Linear Park, make K Street safer

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    Dear Mayor Schaefer and Councilmembers White and Matthews,
    I’d like to thank you for your decision in favor of creating a full width (car‐free) linear park along L Street, and for eschewing the K‐L couplet plan for good. I’m also very pleased to see that you will focus on improving safety along K Street, and making the L Street linear park a walkable and bikeable route. It will be exciting to see how it develops, hopefully with input from the community. I do think the issue of building heights in the Gateway deserves more discussion and community involvement. The last time you held an open house on this was in January 2022, the issue of building heights was a major concern for most of
    the people in attendance. I wasn’t able to attend that meeting because we were in the middle of the pandemic, and I was more fearful then about catching COVID. So I’d like to see another opportunity for the community to address the issue of building heights, and I’m sure there are many others who feel similarly. It shouldn’t be up to just 3 people to
    decide for the rest of us.
    So I’m very pleased that you have indicated that you’d be willing to facilitate further community engagement by holding another open house or forum. I hope this will happen sooner than later, so our voices can be heard well in advance of any decisions being made.
    l’ll have more to say about the building heights, but I’ll save that for later. For now you deserve high praise for helping to save our arts district with plans to improve the L Street Linear Park and make K Street safer. Kudos!! Thank you very much!!!
    Lisa Pelletier
    Arcata resident