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Dear Members of the Planning Commission,
I apologize for sending you more than one email in a week. I know how busy you are, but I just realized that the L‐Street
“circulation element” was on the agenda for the special meeting tonight. In previous Planco meetings, you’ve devoted time to discuss the need for parks as a “community benefit.” We already have a beautiful park in the L‐Street corridor, which just needs some landscaping. Why destroy a “community benefit” that is already in place with a truck/car corridor? If you put a street with major traffic running through it, it will destroy the peace and beauty of the Creamery District with noise and pollution, destroying a “community benefit” already in place.
My mom and I like to stroll through and attend events in the Creamery District, but likely wouldn’t show up of it
becomes a noisy and polluted corridor. That’s the opposite of what we look for in a park.
Please consider turning the L‐Street corridor into a linear park. Hundreds of Arcatans have signed a petition requesting
this. Let’s keep the “community benefits” we already possess intact, and turn the L‐Street corridor into a linear park that
all Arcatans can enjoy for many generations. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Lisa Pelletier (Arcata resident)