Live blogging from City Council Meeting 4/13/2015

We have a pile of Southside folks at city council tonight.  A large group is here to oppose the rezoning of the EDS building. Even our zoning administrator and planning board director agree it is in consistent with our master plan. Council took notice. The owner of the property is speaking now saying that residents don't understand the situation and the building could be used for office buildings and retail space. NOTE: They do not need to rezone to use it for office and retail space. They only need the rezoning to be able to put the self-storage on the property which is the part residents oppose.

Several of us are also here representing neighborhood groups asking for CDBG funds to be restored for an independent neighborhood council.

Karl Biasi, one of the 3 remaining LNC board members and former president of Colonial Village Neighborhood Association spoke very passionately about how distressing this situation has been and how disappointed he has been in the city.

Below is my heartfelt statement about the LNC situation that our leadership team supported. I really had to hold back my tears.

Now I'm in tears again from the wonderful support that A'Lynne Boles, Carol Wood, and Jody Washington on the issue of rezoning.   They REALLY stood up for our Southside and refused to let us "settle."

A bunch of boring stuff now.

Oh! Brian Jeffries just got appointed to the parks board. Oops! President Houghton's Freudian slip. It was Brian Beverly that was appointed.