Mayor Lagrand On Housing (City Connection)

UPDATE 2025-01-27: The Mayor's Mondays website is now available.

In the first City Connection episode of 2025 newly elected Mayor David Lagrand has a pointed discussion about housing as well as introducing his planned Mayor's Mondays community conversation events.

The State of Intercity Transit in 2025

We last looked at the state of intercity transportation in 2022; sadly, very little has changed ...

Mobility Update, 2025-01

The Rapid

Ridership

Predictions For 2025

Continuing the tradition of predictions and evaluation, here are the predictions for the year 2025. Before anyone takes these too seriously remember how the 2024 predictions turned out.

1. ) Venues continue to expand; especially of the eatertainment variety. Between downtown, Bridge St, and Creston six new eatertainment venues will open or be under development.

Planning Commission Agenda, 2025-01-23

The municipal agenda for the Planning Commission meeting on 2025-01-23 is 👉here👈


2411 Burton St SE

This is an application to sell beer and wine out of an existing fueling station and convenience store. The sale of alcohol is already an established aspect of this area's "Neighborhood Character"; being available at 1810 (D&W Fueling Station), 1814 (D&W), 1874 (Condado Tacos), 1962 (Stan's Taco), 1978 (Cafe De Miro), 2410 (Rite-Aid), and 2470 Burton St (Fresh Thyme).

Pondering 2025

The year 2024 has concluded, so now is the season for reflection and prognostication. How do you feel about the prospects of 2025? This image captures my current feelings about my city going into 2025:

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Predictions 2024

Over on the ancient forum site UrbanPlanet.org there is 👉a thread where regular participants make predictions👈 at the new year for the upcoming year, and review their predictions from the previous year. Each year proves that predictions are a perilous business. It is all for fun. With 2024 now in the bag I will tally my score to lend credence to the notion that prediction making is a fool's errand.

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