Letters to the Editor
Demand quality design
This marks the 24th anniversary of the Tower District Specific Plan.
Countless residents and businesses helped draft the plan and implement it since 1991. It provides a comprehensive process for managing historic resources alongside new development in our established neighborhood. Tower’s continued success can be credited to legal policies that balance: quality, stability, economic development and fiscal responsibility.
Blackstone and Clinton avenues are at the northeast corner of the Tower District boundary. There, Rich Development proposes a banal drive-thru and strip mall anchored by Smart & Final. We worked hard to find design and site layout comprises at this important transition between a high-traffic commercial corridor and a residential neighborhood. Ultimately, our design review committee voted unanimously against.
In my eight years of service on the committee, this is the third time a developer decided he or she should enjoy the fruits of business in Tower without meeting long-standing design guidelines. Rich Development feels entitled to special treatment. Councilmember Clint Olivier has taken up its cause in name of the free market.
This ignores half of the supply-and-demand economy. You and I, who live together in this neighborhood and city, are the demand. We demand quality design and walkability.
Kiel Schmidt
Fresno
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Victor E. II deserved A1
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He deserved that ticket
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Standing up for Duncan grads
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Our ‘exceptional president’
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Fort Miller’s good points
I’d like to share my good experiences as a student at Fort Miller Middle School.
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Save Playland, Storyland
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