Closing Off Cherry Street
On October 6th a commenter at this post asked me if I knew anything about closing off a block of Oak Street downtown and turning it into a parking lot. I replied that I hadn’t heard anything about it.
Now it turns out that on October 9th the Planning Commission approved a request from the City of Port Angeles to close off Cherry Street from the alley (near the Peninsula Daily News) north to Front Street. The City Council will be discussing this on Tuesday, October 23rd.
Whatever the advantages or disadvantages to this idea, some questions come to mind: something about the Farmers’ Market and how it got run out of town on a rail because they couldn’t close off one block of Laurel Street for three hours just once a week. And yet just two blocks away they can close part of a parallel street and everything will be just hunky dory.
Any theories?
Now it turns out that on October 9th the Planning Commission approved a request from the City of Port Angeles to close off Cherry Street from the alley (near the Peninsula Daily News) north to Front Street. The City Council will be discussing this on Tuesday, October 23rd.
Whatever the advantages or disadvantages to this idea, some questions come to mind: something about the Farmers’ Market and how it got run out of town on a rail because they couldn’t close off one block of Laurel Street for three hours just once a week. And yet just two blocks away they can close part of a parallel street and everything will be just hunky dory.
Any theories?
Labels: Cherry Street, City of Port Angeles, Laurel Street, Oak Street, Planning Commission, Port Angeles City Council, Port Angeles Farmers’ Market
posted by Tom Harper at 7:04 PM
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