Is Springfield Ready for a Car Wash?

[movedsouth]

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[hooplady]

you can find instructions here: http://www.coj.net/City+Council/ViewEmail.htm

or for the Major and staff: http://www.coj.net/Mayor/View+E-mail.htm

Lawsy...after a few minutes perusing this, I'm amazed any of our city officials get anything done at all!

[sheclown]

I don't get the point of this persons email...what is it they hope to gain? And if there's a new one each day, what is their goal? It's not like Gaffney can do much of anything about the issues this person mentions...what a strange email indeed

From what I've been told, it is an orchestrated effort by a few board members; however, what they hope to accomplish from this, is a mystery.  I don't believe that all of SPAR board feels this way.  Unfortunately, all may be painted with this crazy brush unless they do something soon.

[Livein32206]

Looking over some of these emails....I have one word for this strange effort.....twisted! It's sad to read through these letters and see all of the grammatical errors, do these people know what spell check is? If I were a member of spar, (of which I'm happy to have allowed my membership to expire), I'd be mortified to have these people representing me as their self-professed 'leaders of the community.' If these are the leaders...oh my....

[sheclown]

It is a tough time for many people right now.  Our property values are dropping.  Businesses are closing all around (even the tax prep places may be moving out -- what will that do to Main Street?) Fear has grown so large and powerful you can almost watch it walking down the street. 

Those lucky enough to still have their jobs wake up at 3 am and play out worst case scenarios.

This American Dream we counted on, depended on, is grinning like a Stephen King movie poster.

I never remember a time when a qualified person couldn't find work.  When someone with decent credit couldn't get a mortgage.  And yet, we find ourselves here right now.

We have to be good to one another.  We need to strive for harmony.  Let the war continue when times improve, if it must, but now is not that time.

Let's do good stuff.  Like the community garden, like the random acts of beauty, like the community trash clean up days.  Let's make this mayoral race count like none before.  Let's work toward a better downtown while we are at loose ends, personally.

Let's stop spiraling down and start building up.

[iloveionia]

Let's do good stuff.  Like the community garden, like the random acts of beauty, like the community trash clean up days.  Let's make this mayoral race count like none before.  Let's work toward a better downtown while we are at loose ends, personally.

or attend SACARCs The Pack Social tonight, Thursday, 4/22/10 at Three Layers from 6-8 p.m. and help support the vet and continued care of Springfield's rescued animals.

[hooplady]

^^Thanks for the plug, ionia!

[sheclown]

^  AMEN! 

[braeburn]

I am about ready to contact this owner to recruit the hottest females on my cellphone list to wear nothing but bikinis and get all sudsy-dudsy to promote the opening of this place!

Hell, it's the least that could be done for all the trouble.

[sheclown]

You know, he's gotta sit back and wonder...how he got over....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l49N8U3d0Bw&playnext_from=TL&videos=LH0rsQjX6qI

[tpot]

LOL you should recruit the He Ho's from 8th & Perry..............

[jason_contentdg]

Ok, so some quick information...

It's obvious Silas doesn't want the car wash to look like it was designed...and seemed a little surprised people didn't like the color. Wow.

I've told him that he has to meet the conditions of the approval, that I've talked with planning because of all of the questions I've gotten in the last couple days, and they've reinforced that he will not be able to open up until he has a COA and the car wash looks like the approved design.

I reiterated a couple times that he was wasting money painting, and doing work that wasn't part of the approved design, especially since he hasn't even applied for a COA.  He was generally non-responsive, except with the occasional "oookay"

So, that's all I have at the moment.

[jason_contentdg]

Well, I've had a few calls...

and there are conditions that have to met for it to actually open up, no matter what else is going on in the neighborhood.  Cleaning it up and painting it a shade of magenta isn't going to get it open...and that's not coming from SPAR, me, Lisa, or anyone in the neighborhood, its coming from the city.

I'm not worked up about it, but I felt Silas should know he was more than likely throwing away money if he's planning on trying to open the car wash without it looking anything like it was approved and since it was obviously a big topic here in the forums for so long, and we were a part of it, that I should give a small update.

Are their bigger issues? Absolutley.

[Joe]

Well it's definitely funny that after 28 pages of debate, the demonized "sparbarians" seem like they could be proven right. Noise or no noise, the real root of the debate was whether an auto oriented business is appropriate for main street or whether it will be too trashy. As of right now, we have a giant magenta exclamation point proving the winner of that debate.

Hopefully the owner will start acting in good faith, and we'll get to see if a properly designed auto oriented business can work in the neighborhood.

[Kay]

Stephen:

Here's where I think you are wrong.  Any property owner must follow the conditions approved by Council.  Jason is right in that Silas is wasting his time and money.  I have no skin in this game.  But it appears as if Silas has no intention of complying--at least at this point.