This is exciting for Gilroy! People complain yet people from all over the world go to places like Bourbon Street, Times Sq, Paris/Denmark/London/Beijing/Quebec City pedestrian areas.
Why didn’t they close part of their main street instead of an alley? By the way, alleys are already like a pedestrian sidewalk so this was unnecessary and actually hinders the businesses that use it
Wait a minute, they took a "dingy alley" that actually served a use, it was where those businesses that are next to it could use to help their business out, and turned it into essentially a sidewalk ... why? So people can walk to a parking lot to the actual main street where they will do stuff? Because you know no one is going to hang out in an alley way as a "place to congregate" All paid for with a 3.9 million dollar Caltrans grant? They seriously could not think of a better use of money? I bet residents can probably find $3.9 million of street repairs that are needed without so much as a batting an eye.
That is just a parking lot, with some planters haphazardly placed in a pathetic sad excuse of trying to make it just A PARK... And no, businesses shouldn't have to figure out what to use the space for, they clearly did, it was a loading dock area for 2 businesses Gilroy clearly doesn't want around anymore. The city when planning this should have discussed with the businesses what would help them from the project, design and placement of their needs long before even constructing this. The alternative is lose businesses and tax revenue and have a useless pedestrian alleyway that inevitably become a homeless drug alley.
well, well, well.... more DEI nonsense. ".... through volunteer and celebration..." Gilroy is what it is, spending $3+ Million spiffing up a parking lot with some plants and paint still leaves all chain link fence, power poles every 20 feet, etc but I do like the crepe myrtle
Residents: "We need to support safety and small business".
NIMBYS: NOT LIKE THIS
NIMBYs attacking again!!
This is exciting for Gilroy! People complain yet people from all over the world go to places like Bourbon Street, Times Sq, Paris/Denmark/London/Beijing/Quebec City pedestrian areas.
Why didn’t they close part of their main street instead of an alley?
By the way, alleys are already like a pedestrian sidewalk so this was unnecessary and actually hinders the businesses that use it
Wait a minute, they took a "dingy alley" that actually served a use, it was where those businesses that are next to it could use to help their business out, and turned it into essentially a sidewalk ... why? So people can walk to a parking lot to the actual main street where they will do stuff? Because you know no one is going to hang out in an alley way as a "place to congregate" All paid for with a 3.9 million dollar Caltrans grant? They seriously could not think of a better use of money? I bet residents can probably find $3.9 million of street repairs that are needed without so much as a batting an eye.
That is just a parking lot, with some planters haphazardly placed in a pathetic sad excuse of trying to make it just A PARK... And no, businesses shouldn't have to figure out what to use the space for, they clearly did, it was a loading dock area for 2 businesses Gilroy clearly doesn't want around anymore. The city when planning this should have discussed with the businesses what would help them from the project, design and placement of their needs long before even constructing this. The alternative is lose businesses and tax revenue and have a useless pedestrian alleyway that inevitably become a homeless drug alley.
Whoa.
Judging by the ban cars road diet movement theyre trying this everywhere
Dumb to remove access from the businesses
well, well, well.... more DEI nonsense. ".... through volunteer and celebration..." Gilroy is what it is, spending $3+ Million spiffing up a parking lot with some plants and paint still leaves all chain link fence, power poles every 20 feet, etc but I do like the crepe myrtle