Abel Harding's 2011 Plan For Downtown

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After all the brouhaha over Abel's "DWI", the charges were subsequently dropped and appeared to be the result of an over zealous small town cop.  Not sure if Abel is interested in entering the political arena but he would make a great Councilman or Mayor should he decide to run.

[mtraininjax]

He still thinks people were mad because of his dwi thing coming back from gainesville.  Which I think is silly.

People make mistakes, look at all the people who elected Brown! I forgive them! 

With such a void of good character people, the vacancies almost BEG him to throw his hat into the ring.  Just saying.

[Tacachale]

He still thinks people were mad because of his dwi thing coming back from gainesville.  Which I think is silly.

People make mistakes, look at all the people who elected Brown! I forgive them! 

With such a void of good character people, the vacancies almost BEG him to throw his hat into the ring.  Just saying.

Agreed!

[Noone]

The 2/13/13 Jacksonville Waterways Commission meeting was over 5 hours long. There were some high points and some low points. Tom Ingram was there for the meeting and I hope he shares his analysis.

Not one person from the media was in attendance.
Dave Roman was a no show.
Kelly Boree was a no show.

I'll start by saying that the Public Trust in this community has been totally crushed and destroyed and lets get ready to VISIT corruption when showing our city from the water DOWNTOWN and we'll start with SHIPYARDS III. The Office of General Council in my opinion gets credit for the total misrepresentation for this future tour. Play the tape and you will be able to hear it for yourself.

Like I said there were definitely highs and lows for this marathon meeting. I must give props to commission members Love, Boyer, Crescimbeni, Hodges, Shine for meaningful engagement. These were the stars in my opinion. There may have been one eclipse. But I have a feeling that they will get it with the next rotation.

I'm writing this after reading Lakes comments from the Live Blogging of the DIA thread and his comments about the Southbank Riverwalk and the closing of the Southbank Riverwalk and the fishing that is currently allowed in that part of our vibrant Downtown. Well, BINGO! That is also what's happening on the Northbank. The previous day I attended the Hemming Plaza committee meeting of the DIA.  The bottom line is that this new Authority will have complete and total control over a 20 square mile area. And a river happens to run through the middle of it. So the legislative actions that are happening right now should be the biggest wake up call for the people of Jacksonville. I'm All In.

So who wants to kayak and fish Downtown under the brand new No Fishing signs that was never before Waterways and we'll put in at a kayak launch that still needs a Mayor Brown kayak logo.

Ben Warner- JCCI we need to kayak Downtown before 2025

I am Downtown and why you aren't.

Nooney,  you were there.  And your audience is quite respectable in terms of readership.

Thanks Stephen.

Abel and I did share a great Downtown Adventure on Hogans and McCoys Creek. Does anyone plan on attending the Special meeting of FIND? 9:30 am on 1/14/14 Conf. Rm A city hall. Then hours later 2014-22 will be introduced at the full meeting of the Jacksonville city council. Heard back from councilman Gulliford but nothing from councilman Redman who is the Chair of Waterways. Did anyone attend one of the specific noticed meetings? How many we're there?