Letter to the editor

Dear Editor,

A grand turnout at the chamber meeting March 26 standing room only and every person, excluding chamber and planning people, against the new downtown planning. The new plan was compared to the flow of traffic on the Airbase Road and American Legion Blvd. These two roads were developed about one hundred years after downtown. The businesses were set back off the road and had their own private parking and there is no street parking on these two roads.

The owner of Mark Anthony's Bar on 2nd St. is owned by a city council member that stated at the meeting "This is the third plan we have worked on and it will not be put on the shelf".

Meaning to me is you get it whether you want it or not. It seems to me this council member is working his own agenda and not the owners of other businesses in downtown Mtn. Home.

No person I talked to said they were afraid to walk downtown including people working there every day.

We need more parking not less and a bike lane in the middle of town for four blocks is down right comical.

The vote was postponed no doubt to delay being tarred and feathered.

— Larry Rogers

Mountain Home