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HomeMy WebLinkAboutEmailed and Public Comments from Woody Woodruff1 Gloria Harper From:Woody Woodruff <ewoodruff111@gmail.com> Sent:Friday, April 12, 2024 10:54 AM To:Gloria Harper Subject:Proposed changes to MainStreet plan. Please send to all plan commissioners. I ask the planning commission and city Council to vote no on any change to the Main street plan. The retail businesses shouldn’t be persecuted and we should not put drinking back on our sidewalks. Please save our quaint Main Street and vote now on these changes. The city is once again, pushing for the bars and restaurants to to have exclusive rights over our Main Street sidewalks ,and again is running a vendetta against the retail businesses not allowing them to display any merchandise on the sidewalk , as these businesses have done for over thirty years . Their aim they say, is to revitalize and enhance the vibrancy of Main Street .These are the same people and ideas that took are clean and vibrant, family friendly Main Street where all businesses were thriving whether they were bars, restaurants ,retail ,service businesses, or professional businesses crippled it tryingto turn it into a poor man’s copy of 2nd Street Long Beach. A bar street with devastated retail sector, not a family friendly place. They took away a third of our parking on Main Street just for the bars and restaurant’s supposed temporary parklets . With only a fraction of the parking being left our long time good customers who wanted to come here and spend money we’re chased away by the people tha t just wanted the free parking and not to spend any money that would fight over the parking. The people that really want to spend money have many choices of where they can go ,they’re not gonna fight over a handful of parking scraps . They left us and we a re still affected by it to this day. That is why you’re seeing more empty retail spots. I’d rather have stores like Mac fusion and the Temecula olive oil company then some dude just upping his liquor sales. The parklets. were never maintained or clean with that we had our infamous rat invasion when the partlets were closed the rats had to find a new home, as it was reported in local newspapers we had restaurants shut down because the rats went inside. We had restaurants where the sidewalk in front of them was black from all the food droppings even though the city pressure washes the sidewalk every week. The city even let the bars and restaurants put tables in front of other peoples businesses. With the drinking on the sidewalk, we are patrons of the bars and restaurants making lewd comments to not only women on the street, but also to women who worked in the businesses and their customers, as it was explained to the entire city Council by the women that work in the hair salon in the hundred block of Main Street. I’d come in the morning Into my parking lot next to the church. and hear screaming from the tavern on the other side of Main Street from their clients that were drinking in the parklet already, and watching a soccer game from Europe . When we fought against this and the planning commission, letting food beverage, places permanently, bolt furniture to the sidewalks by using the in leu parking, a which was a complete fabrication of its use. When we as business owners comp complained about all these problems and and unfairness of the whole situation retaliation from the couple of city council people that were pushing this was quick and brutal against all other businesses. They tried to convolute a banner law to make the poor Kite Store take down every flag they had, the shell shop couldn’t even have a couple boxes of shells out front, even people that put planters in front of their stores at the cities request and approval were told to remove them. Isn’t it interesting that the new two-story building at PCH and Main Street was required to have potted plants in front of their building before the city would even let them open their building? See what the non-bar or restaurants businesses are subjected to by the city. Now they wanna change the whole Main Street plan so they can legally harass the other businesses, and give the sidewalk away to the bars and restaurants .We had filth and harassment from people drinking in the parklets and the tables on the sidewalk , neither the city or the bar or restaurant managers ever did anything about these problems ! They’re not gonna do anything this time either and we’re gonna have the same problems again . Yet they harass the retail stores saying they can’t have any merchandise up against their building fronts where it’s not in anyone’s way, but the restaurants can put tables and chairs out .It’s up to you guys. Do you wanna lose all the stores do you want to be a bar street like second St. it’s up to you are you gonna letthe same people who crippled our street do even worse damage? you need to write the planing commission and the city council, as I am sure this is just being pushed again by two of our council people . let them know that you don’t want them to put our our retail stores out of business because of their 2 vendetta against them ,let them keep their merchandise and don’t let them keep doing this failed experiment . Let them go over to second Street if they want to bar Street.