Attached is a picture from Thanksgiving.
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Plasma?? You're talkin to me about plasma? Man, plasma!
Attached is a picture from Thanksgiving.
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We had a good turnout of support this past Tuesday at the city planning board meeting.
Still, though, the board members, with their minds already made up, voted up plans to put a plasma donation center at 850 North Main.
At the previous meeting, the board tabled the issue, noting that the public's concerns needed to be addressed.
We wanted to know how the applicant, CSL-Behring, was going to minimize the social effects. - Studies show that paid plasma centers concentrated drug activity, violence and theft in the communities where they do business.
We also wanted to know how this could ever work in with CitiPlan 20/20.
When city planner, Andrew Rodney gave his follow-up presentation this past Tuesday, he addressed our concerns... the way an old thinker would.
He proposed higher shrubs and 15 feet more of "green space." - what a pleasant sounding term.
The board members were smiling and nodding their heads the whole time, as if Mr. Rodney and CSL were offering solutions.
When it came time for public comment, the board chairman interrupted, badgered and inimidated anyone who spoke.
This lead to several withdrawals of requests to speak before the board.
This, combined with the city's rejecting our requests to submit video testimony, really helped quell public opinion... Well done, everyone.
No one within the administration nor on the board is standing up to his/her peers in the interest of improving our lives.
That would require struggle, and debate.
Instead, everyone is shutting up, in the interests of maintaiming the status quo, and making it home for dinner.
I'm not sure where this case goes next (possibly the city commission), but I'll keep you updated.
The attached picture is from this evening... An alarm at an adjacent business went off... Crime scene investigators had to shut down traffic on Miami Blvd... The proposed plasma center is the building behind the cop car.
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We're gaining support!
North Main businesses... Other Neighborhood Organizations... Even workers from these facilities are with us.
Btw, the planning department is saying no-go on the video testimony... I bet we'll have that decision overridden in time for the meeting on Tuesday, November 16th, 4:30pm!
Thanks.
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