Now our downtown area will become
the new concrete jungle with inadequate parks and parking, leading to
increases in traffic congestion, gridlock and crime. Is this why we
elected our current council members to change the landscape of our
“jewel city” and to diminish our quality of life?
The
increase in new construction will bring to the city increases in
property taxes to help pay for the first and second obligations of
government — unfunded and unsustainable wages and pensions of our city
employees, but not the needed services like large urban parks, libraries
and infrastructure maintenance for roads, sidewalks, water, sewer and
electricity.
About 1,694 new
apartment units will bring approximately 4,235 new residents to downtown
Glendale. Traffic congestion will be even worse than it is today during
rush hour at the main intersections near the 134 Freeway.
Our
city manager and council members have told the public, “what’s done is
done,” and they will let the next council fix our infrastructure mess.
However, in reality, they were the ones who made the bad decisions and
now they are acting as if someone else is responsible for the city’s
problems.
Mike Mohill