Hoorah for Westfield mega mall
“I support Westfield mega mall. I have lived in Gilroy for a very long time and it would be nice to have department stores like Macy’s and movie theaters, nice restaurants. These opponents to this project, if you don’t like it, don’t support it. There will be less traffic.”
Red Phone:
Well, good caller, point taken. Red Phone asks that you consider a third point of view: Build the project, but do it right. Require enough improvements and additions to the roads, freeways and streets to accomodate the massive amount of traffic a 1.5-million-square-foot mall would generate. And provide open space elsewhere so the gorgeious views of the surrounding hills you have come to enjoy will be there for your grandchildren.
Don’t slop tar on my curbs
I’m not sure whose decision it was to cover the already perfectly fine street in the 7500 circle of Westwood and Kentwood with black tar, but it looks absolutely horrible, there is now over-spray on all of the curbs and gutters, it has quite possibly brought the property values of each home down by at least $20K per house, and will undoubtedly cause the area to be unbearably and needlessly hotter next summer. The City’s money would have been better spent leaving the street as it was (there was nothing wrong with it) and instead installing a PROTECTED left turn at Church Street and 10th Street. I’d like a list of names to ‘thank’ for the destruction of my street, along with notification to them that they are mismanaging the budget by paving streets that don’t need it while leaving 10th and Church unprotected. It’s an absolute crying shame.
Red Phone:
Good caller, resurfacing streets are performed exactly so that the streets don’t become in such disrepair that they need replaced at a much higher cost. Red Phone asked a reputable Gilroy real-estate agent from a national firm whether tar splashed on a curb will lower property values by “at least $20,000.” He just stared. Oh, and his eye twitched. I’m going to take both of those nonverbal communications as a “no.” Crumbling streets seems like it would be more effective at lowering property values.
As for obtaining a list of those responsible for “the destruction of your street,” Red Phone suggests going to www.ci.gilroy.ca.us/services and click on “Operations.” That will connect you with the, as Stephen Colbert would say, the destroyers. If not satisfied, you can always contact your council members.
Hey, no argument from us
I’m really offended by these new condos at the Indian Motorcycle Plant. It’s a joke, it’s rediculous. No matter what’s said in the paper, no way you guys condone this kind of nonsense, there’s already too much traffic on 10th Street. And then pin the tail on the donkey. Hillary Clinton the nominee most likely to lose? No, the nominee most likely to win, and keep printing more stuff like that so that it will make sure she does.
Red Phone:
Well, good caller, The Dispatch editorialized against the project several times. Red Phone encourages you to attend Monday night’s Gilroy City Council meeting so you can speak to those who make those decisions. On the editorial cartoon, we publish one a day that have a variety of viewpoints on politics and life, and indeed, Hillary may be our next president.
