Keep Your Promise Please, Fred...
In the run up to the 2008 Mayoral election, Fred Small was asked what would be his priorities if he were elected.
His top 2?
1. Work with the council and the citizens thru a visioning process that will help lay the groundwork for a strategic plan.
2. Find the balance between aesthetics and commerce.
Well, Fred, now is the time to step up to the plate and prove that there is substance behind those words.
TimberCreek is a residential neighborhood with tree lined avenues and traffic free cul-de-sacs where children can play in the street and people can walk, jog and generally live out a peaceful and comfortable existence.
This would all end if you, and the other members of the planning commission, were to vote for the sub-division of the golf course and the subsequent commercial development.
Readers who aren't residents of TimberCreek may be thinking "huh, stupid NIMBY, we need more commercial activity to get us out of this financial slump". Well folks, I already have a hotel in by backyard (literally) but the real issue is that there is empty commercial property in the Jubilee Mall Shopping Centre on Highway 90 (part of the City of Daphne and less than 5 miles from TimberCreek) and if there isn't sufficient business investment to make a success of existing commercial real estate why do we need more? The Eastern Shore Centre also has vacant properties and as you can see towards the end of our video there is already a huge tract of undeveloped land just outside TimberCreek.
View Pictures of more vacant commercial property in Daphne
As one of the two people on the Planning Commission that rely on the electorate for their positions I would urge the Honorable Fred Small to vote NO to the sub-division and prove to the good citizens of TimberCreek that voting for him was not a mistake.
His top 2?
1. Work with the council and the citizens thru a visioning process that will help lay the groundwork for a strategic plan.
2. Find the balance between aesthetics and commerce.
Well, Fred, now is the time to step up to the plate and prove that there is substance behind those words.
TimberCreek is a residential neighborhood with tree lined avenues and traffic free cul-de-sacs where children can play in the street and people can walk, jog and generally live out a peaceful and comfortable existence.
This would all end if you, and the other members of the planning commission, were to vote for the sub-division of the golf course and the subsequent commercial development.
Readers who aren't residents of TimberCreek may be thinking "huh, stupid NIMBY, we need more commercial activity to get us out of this financial slump". Well folks, I already have a hotel in by backyard (literally) but the real issue is that there is empty commercial property in the Jubilee Mall Shopping Centre on Highway 90 (part of the City of Daphne and less than 5 miles from TimberCreek) and if there isn't sufficient business investment to make a success of existing commercial real estate why do we need more? The Eastern Shore Centre also has vacant properties and as you can see towards the end of our video there is already a huge tract of undeveloped land just outside TimberCreek.
View Pictures of more vacant commercial property in Daphne
As one of the two people on the Planning Commission that rely on the electorate for their positions I would urge the Honorable Fred Small to vote NO to the sub-division and prove to the good citizens of TimberCreek that voting for him was not a mistake.
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