Monday, March 11, 2013
Mayor says his "minimum point of departure" for University Hills sidewalks was a rhetorical device.
Hyattsville Mayor Marc Tartaro wants to make one thing clear: a description, offered by him during last Monday's meeting of the Hyattsville City Council of the minimum sidewalk network he'd like to see in University Hills, is in no way his final proposal for pedestrian pathways through the neighborhood. In a Sunday evening phone call to Hyattsville Patch editor Michael Theis, and through city spokesperson Abby Sandel on Monday, Tartaro reiterated that his "minimum point of departure" for University Hills sidewalks, as he described it during last Monday's meeting, was intended as a starting point for discussions as the city council prepares to make a decision on how to proceed with the neighborhood streetscape overhaul. He said a map …
Sunday, March 10, 2013
Two visions dominate discussion of sidewalks in northern Hyattsville neighborhood.
As the Hyattsville City Council moves towards a decision on how to proceed with an overhaul of the streetscape in University Hills, at least two visions for a network of sidewalks in the northern Hyattsville neighborhood have emerged. One, put forward by Mayor Marc Tartaro, describes a bare bones network of sidewalks designed as a starting point in the often contentious debate over pedestrian facilities in University Hills. The other, put forward by Councilor Tim Hunt (Ward 3), attempts to reconcile objections raised by some neighbors with what Hunt described as an obvious need for sidewalks in many parts of the neighborhood. This past Monday, members of the Hyattsville City Council debated how to balance objections against the …
Monday, February 11, 2013
Survey data released by the city of Hyattsville breaks down support for sidewalks on a block by block basis.
Hey Hyattsville! I want to reassure you that I an still alive, though I spent the second half of last week recovering from a fever. Unfortunately, my self imposed quarantine meant that I missed a much anticipated city meeting which reviewed the results of the University Hills sidewalk survey. While I couldn't report on the he-said-she-said aspects of the meeting, city officials did make the survey response data public. From that data, a portion of which gauged the neighborhood's receptiveness to sidewalks on a street by street level, we can plot on a map the areas of University Hills where sidewalk opposition is stronger and weaker. That's exactly what I did above. The greener the area means a dominant percentage of survey respondents on…
Scot Brown
8:13 am on Tuesday, March 12, 2013
OMG enough already... will someone be a leader? Make a decision and follow through with it. It's not that hard. We've been going around in circles for year already. That is plenty of time. If people have not spoken up by now then they have missed the chance. Build the things already and move on to the next topic. more ›