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Public comment on non agenda items October 06-2025 Pasadena Sister Cities Guanajuato Ad-hloc Affiliation Process Clarifications
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Dear City of Pasadena Mayor and councilmembers and PSCC Executive committee, Please see our notes from the September 29th City council meeting regarding the Sister cities Program and Guanajuato PAAd-Hoc committee progress.
In The Mayor's statement of the September 29th, 2025 City council meeting,"we are a community that Acts together"
We Active Pasadena sister cities Members of the Guanajuato PA Ad-Hoc, Including FOUR Board members, and the Vice President of PSCC who traveled to Guanajuato on the first historic trip on October 2024 , included you in our travel planes and gave you plenty of notice through our President who insisted that she be the only one in direct communication with the Mayor's office, You asked to be excluded from the Pasadena Delegation profile pocket that was prepared, you asked Ms lena kennedy to exclude you and the City Seal from that Exploration visit.
We invited the Guanajuato Community including Mayor elect Samantha Smith , days before CM Madison sent the letter to Smith with his community liaison, PSCC Board member Co-Chair of New Affiliations. That is a Fact stated in our October report and 2024-work plan..
The PSCC President should have informed the Mayor in June when we first announced ourwork plans for 2024, and she repeatedly stated that she would prefer if she were the ONLY person from PSCC to communicate with the Mayor even on emails. For anyone to state that we did not include them is completely false.
The Mayor of Guanajuato sent a letter directly to your office and only addressed to the Mayor of Pasadena, Mayor gordo stated that he forwarded the letter to Ms Lena for the appropriate response.
That reasoning seems contradictory, when official communications are directly to the Mayor no one but the Mayor is expected to respond.
1 The Invitation letter from Guanajuato's mayor was sent on June 23,2025.and If your office is waiting for the feedback from the PSCC President , please know that the delayed response from your office is not justified by the PSCC president not responding to your office.
Per the SCAP Procedures :
item 2. 2 There shall be visits between cities followed by continuous contacts, both unofficial and official.
PSCC President stated that the letter should have been sent to her, we believe that understanding to be wrong, Sister cities international or our bylaws and Affiliation Policies do not have any language that describes that understanding.
In the end the lack of a formal response from your office to the Invitation from the Guanajuato Mayor is not justified.
Mayor's statement: "Apparently Decisions have been made by a few people" In regards of our selection of Guanajuato for our Proposed Affiliation was made ONLY after extensive four months of research following the Affiliation Policy as described in our report, in collaboration with Parents, Students both from PUSD and PCC, PUSD Teachers, PCC Professors, PHD Doctors in Education, Mexico Tourism experienced travelers, community Leaders. The selection and work plan that included our Exploration visit AND our intentions to invite them (SCAS 2.2) to the Tournament of Roses were all completed as a group formed by new members of PSCC and by people joining or expressing interest in joining PSCC. (SCAP 2.3)
Ms Lena Kennedy on September 29th meeting
" The letter that the Mayor
of another city sent to you........WHY??? it should have come to me." This understanding is completely absurd and wrong. The Zacatecas , Ensenada and La Paz alleged people that contacted you did not contacted PSCC President, the fact is that the Mayor has the authority to sign a friendly city agreement with no community input, but a Proposed Affiliation process and selection by the community of any city in the world rests in the hands of the people, not the Mayor.
Since I joined PSCC on late 2023 not one person has mentioned Zacatecas in PSXCC meetings or emails, nevertheless we are completely supportive of the Mayors individual efforts to form a friendship city affiliation with his birth state of zacatecas, but we must not mix Sister cities Affiliations processes with Friendly affiliations as they are completely different processes.
The Mayor may also participate in suggesting Sister cities to be explored , but is up to the citizens to form or not a proposed affiliation Ad-Hoc as this is all volunteer work.
The Mayor's decisions to remove his name and exclude himself from the Guanajuato PA process in the summer of 2024 and then come back in December and say" no one considered me" are just not logical.
Other Municipalities of interest (to the Mayor) are Ensenada and la Paz both in Baja California, and I mentioned that both of those had communicated with me........................ratherthan accept that invitation ....I learned of a sister city delegation and visit (to Guanajuato and Pasadena by Official Delegations of both communities on Non-Official Business visits) 2 Dear Mayor with all due respect the above statement is an unilateral reasoning that is not aligned with Sister Cities and it could be perfectly correct if we are only talking about Friendship city, but to call that an"lnvitation " is not accurate, we feel that what it translates to is the opposite of your statement as follows:
There is no I (Meaning you) in the word We ( meaning the community selection, Exploration visits and invitations)
No where in any SCI or PSCC materials will you find any language that a Proposed Affiliation or Ad-Hoc committee must get permission from the local. Sister Cities program President (PSCC) to Invite an official delegation on Non-Official business visits. and they can still welcome them as Pasadena sister cities Members, the opposite would be a Monarchy and completely irrational but apparently that's the PSCC President;'s understanding of "The Process".
We would like to close this statement by saying that we will steer off of any public embarrassments to our city as the Isatcity council meeting that was full of accusations and attacks to many people including myself.were the Mayor spend a lot of energy engaging in attorney-like debates about the Sister cities Process , we must be responsible with the community and JUST IN CASE no one has realized , making very dangerous separatist and divisive declarations like :
PSCC President: "We had White Flight",
The fact is that Many PSCC leaders like Bob Niemack, Maureen Mcconnell, SCI representative Taileen, Former PSCC Vice President and Armenian Chair, many Armenian PSCC members that were ignored many times after expressing their discontent and also Martin Gordon that stepped down as Vice president many many people have expressed their disagreements and that they are not happy with this administration, orthe President's statements.. IncludingAsian, Latin, White and African Americans, to even mention the word "White Flight" is VERY irresponsible, and dangerous for our community. "The vast majority of Mexicans in Pasadena are fromZacatecas" or "A big portion of the Pasadena community is from Zacatecas",
This is a false non-factual opinion and VERY DANGEROUS statement that could spark separatism and debates among our Mexican communities, I implore the Mayor to stay away from ever mentioning it again. This statement is also completely irrelevant to the Sister cities Selection process and the research recommendations by Sister cities International, for Sister Cities Affiliations. Please do not divide our Mexican community, that is a very unconscious statement that should be avoided moving forward. Wwe are not competing with ANYONE.
We don't believe that our City manager would like to be part of that campaign at all. The Mayor can easily form a friendship City relationship with Zacatecas by traveling to Zacatecas and signing a Friendship city agreement with the highest ranking official there. In our meeting with the Mayor on February 21,2024 with Amalia Maruez PHD ED. when we first announced our Guanajuato PA Ad-Hoc selection , he was advised on how to form such a PA committee and work towards a Zacatecas affiliation but we made it very clear that our community group , Guanajuato PA Ad-h-lioc had completed the selection process and that Guanajuato was our final selection , a selection by the entire members of the Guanajuato PAad-Hoc , not jusf'a few People " as unfairly stated.
3 Concluding this email, I would like to suggest that a close session meeting be scheduled before the Guanajuato item comes back and we all stay away from publicly embarrassing the people to people program in Pasadena, keep the attorney tactics in the court, take a deep breath and help us unite everyone as ONE Pasadena.
Together we will stand, divided we will fall.
We do expect everyone involved including the Mayor, PSCC President, SCI Stete representatives, Mexico SCI representatives, to get information from the source NOR PSCC President because there seems to be a conflict of interest or understandings of the Sister Cities process even from the PSCC President, we need all council members and our Guanajuato PA Ad-Hoc to be given the proper respect it deserves with the amazing work WE together have accomplished an amazing people to people relationship between the Pasadena and Guanajuato Communities that will grow even stronger this fall.
We look forward to tentative dates for our meeting. This is a formal meeting request that needs a formal response from the Mayor's office, please your secretary, to send tentative times to meet virtually or in person.
We would also like to take this opportunity to ask you to save the date for the Pasadena-Altadena , Flame of Peace Handover Interfaith Prayer Ceremony on January 8th , 2026. Please see attached flyer and press release.
At Your service, Truly and Sincerely
Rene H. Gonzalez
Pasadena Sister Cities Committee (PSCC)
Guanajuato Proposed AffiliatJon(PA) Ad-Hoc Committee
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4 FLAME OF PEACE
HANDOVER CEREMONY
PLAZA DE LA PAZ ,GUANAJUATO CAPITAL, MEXICO
NOVEMBER, 4TH , 2025
After the horrific atomic bombing of Hiroshima in August 1945, that killed over 140,000 innocent Men, women, children, and unborn babies.
One man, named Tatsuo Yamamoto, returned to the disaster area and ignited a flame from the embers that were still burning on the ground, he kept and maintained this flame as a symbol of remembrance and peace to comfort the souls of those who died in the atomic bombing, through prayer in hopes of nuclear abolition and permanent world peace.
After many decades the flame of peace was presented to Pope Francis at the Vatican in 2019, who after a powerful united prayer blew out the flame in front of hundreds of thousands of people to symbolize a future free from nuclear wars and hope for a permanent world peace.
The flame is now situated in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and has been shared with many locations in Japan and across the world as a powerful symbol of peace by over 675,000 people who have shared it among communities that have gone through disasters, injustice and war, allowing the healing process to begin through a universal interfaith prayer, transforming past suffering into peace among all human kind..
The Flame of Peace ceremony consists of the Lighting of the Flame followed by an interfaith Prayer for world peace adding your personal wish to the prayer and ending the ceremony by blowing out the flame, symbolizing the transformation of past suffering into peace powered by pure human kindness taking full responsibility for the happiness of others.
The Flame of Peace continues on its global pilgrimage. It has been carried by those who believe the world can change. Children are always part of the handover ceremony to allow for the message to be lit in their hearts and to bring hope for a future of permanent world peace because the children are the future.
The city of Guanajuato, being a UNESCO World Heritage for Humanity site, has been the recipient of the Flame of peace and in a powerful solidarity ceremony they have scheduled a hand over of the Flame of Peace Ceremony at Plaza de La Paz during our Pasadena Delegation visit on November 4th. 2025.
We will be then bringing the Flame of Peace to Pasadena and we have planned a handover ceremony of the Flame of Peace here in our sister community ofAltadena where the lighting of the Flame of Peace Ceremony will be followed by an interfaith prayer to bring comfort to the souls of all those affected by the Eaton Fire disaster.
We invite people of all faiths to contribute their prayers and wishes to bring healing to all humans that have suffered from natural disasters,injustice and wars and bring peace and comfort to the souls of those who have died by weapons of mass destruction. Like the Hiroshima and Nagasaky innocent communities that were erased in seconds by the US nuclear bombs.
The Flame of Peace represents humankind's common hope for unity and peace by helping people live with compassion and become more responsible for each other's happiness.
May God bring peace to all humanity in these sad times of uncertainty here at home and around the world.
Rene H. Gonzalez , Chair
Pasadena Sister Cities Committee (PSCC),
Guanajuato Proposed Affiliation(PA) Ad-Hoc Committee
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Good afternoon:
I write in strong support of Item 6 on the agenda. As someone who enjoys hiking and is car-free, I urge the council to vote yes in favor of constructing the four greenways on the agenda. I would love to bike more in this beautiful city we call home. Unfortunately, there is simply not enough safe infrastructure in this city to make that a reality. Cars routinely exceed the speed limit and violate traffic laws in this city.
We are all fully aware that the higher the speed at which a vehicle is going during a collision, the greater the probability of fatalities occurring. Slowing down our streets is not just pro-bike, it is pro- safety and pro-driver, reducing the risk of fatal consequences and making the road a more pleasant experience for all.
Finally, if we are to meet our climate goals, we must reduce car dependency. This project is a small step towards making value into action, by allowing more of us to get around with bikes, instead of polluting the air and roads. Thank you.
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Thomas Tai
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AGAINST GREENWAYS and MISUSE OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS
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My name is Angela Guzman, I'm a resident of Pasadena. I OPPOSE the Greenways project. In the interest of time I submit, the cost is NOT justified, the changes in traffic flow will not support normal traffic vehicles (although, I'm certain that is your goal), hiring consultants outside of California, let alone Pasadena, is outrageous and I have questions about the planning and the EFFORTS BY CERTAIN PASADENA CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS PUSH THIS THROUGH! This project is not well thought out and the amount of funding is ridiculous and could be used more wisely for the good of ALL PASADENA RESIDENTS.
I'm OPPOSEDTO THE GREENWAY PROJECT.
Thank you for your time...
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I am strongly against the Greenways Proposals for the Northeast area of Pasadena II Some people who received this message don't often get email from=t. Learn why this is important [ I ] CAUTION: This email was delivered from the Internet. Do not click links or open attachments unless you know the content is safe. Report phish using the Phish Alert Button. For more information about the Phish Alert Button view article "KB0011474" on the DolT portal.
Dear Pasadena City Council:
My name is William Crowell and I live on the Pasadena, CA . I am strongly against the Greenways proposals for our neighborhood, because the Greenways are infective and unnecessary in this northeast section of Pasadena. Furthermore, they often look filthy and are an eyesore, after only a few months. Finally, I feel they are a misuse of taxpayer dollars.
Again, I am strongly against these proposed additional Greenways for the District 4 area - in the City of Pasadena.
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re: #6 and #7-Please support
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Dear Pasadena City Council,
My husband Anthony and I use or e-bikes to the city council when we come to the city council to testify and to many or locations, but it is hard to find safe streets to use. Please support the Greenways! Thank you!! Jill Shook
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City Council Item 6:1 support safe greenways!
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Hello,
I am a Pasadena resident, we have a family of 4. We like to ride with our daughters throughout the city. It would really help if there were more peaceful streets to bike on.
I support the contracts, and I want to see All Ages and Abilities Greenways built to create safe neighborhood streets.
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Wade Carpenter
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Dear City Council - Please support the Greenways projects on the Council agenda. It is clear that traffic is much too fast on residential streets, causing far too many accidents. Vote for traffic safety. Tom Brady, ',Pasadena, CA 91105
1 October 6, 2025
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Resolution: 6 Greenways
From: Mike Polka, resident of Pasadena
The City has a goal to reduce traffic speeds to prevent injuries, fatalities, and automobile accidents.
It does not appear that the City has explored the use of uneven brick streets that were once used on urban streets before the use of concrete and asphalt became common on streets pavement materials.
I am providing a 1996 Case Study for traffic calming by using uneven clay brick pavers for the City of Winter Park, Florida. The varied thickness of 2 1/2" to almost 3". The standard vehicular paver is 2 3/4" thickness.
When the bricks are uneven, they will produce a rough sound when going over 35 MPH.
Like Pasadena, Winter Park tried traditional traffic calming methods with mixed results, such as speed bumps/speed humps and bump-outs, while keeping in mind emergency vehicle requirements, uneven traffic flow (speeding up and slowing down), and aesthetic concerns.
Uneven Brick Paver Benefits:
1. Traffic decreased by 29% from 8,500 to 6,000 cars per day, with a drop in average speed to 29 MPH from 41 MPH after bricking. Therefore, reducing the problem ofcut-through traffic from two major highways.
2. The clay brick streets were such a hit with residents that they began campaigning to have their neighborhood streets repaved with brick. Winter Park, Florida, has since bricked about 25% of its streets.
3. The brick streets raised surrounding property values by 15 to 25 percent. 10/06/2025
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Winter Park and a few other cities have been using uneven bricks to reduce traffic speeds for at least 25 years. Can the City promote and fund Staff and appropriate Committee members to visit cities like Winter Park to experience the uneven brick pavers personally? Is there a current project, such as the Greenways, where the City can explore uneven bricks that will reduce traffic speeds throughout the entire street, rather than using speed bumps and roundabouts, which only reduce speed in specific sections of the street? By reducing the required signage associated with speed bumps and roundabouts (the Avenue 64 and Burleigh roundabout has over 35 giant signs) we will look less like a commercial business district and feel more like a neighborhood.
Task Force Suggestions:
Pasadena Heritage
Design Commission
Environmental Advisory Commission
Historic Preservation Commission
Accessibility and Disability Commission
Transportation Advisory
Complete Streets
Keep Pasadena Moving
Department of Transportation
Department of Public Works
Comments and additional information based on my conversation with Mr. Wait Steele, president of Pine Hall Bricks:
Pine Hill Brick does not have a distributor on the West Coast. Contact Mr. Wait Steele directly.
To avoid having his personal cell phone and email address listed on the City website, please see the attached contact information.
1. Bricks must be positioned in a herringbone pattern to interlock. By the way, a chevron pattern in not a herringbone pattern.
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2. Custom color options available. Mingled color reduce tire marks.
3. Lighter colored bricks can show tire marks but can reduce the urban heat island effect.
Perhaps street sweeping can remove some tire markings, if using light colored bricks.
Reducing the urban heat island effect is a goal in the Pasadena Climate Action Plan.
4. Depending on the manufacturer, some bricks are fired at a higher temperature which can be more glass-like and brittle. According to Pine Hill Brick, their bricks are fired at a lower temperature.
5. Uneven brick street pavers are spaced 1/4" apart. Pine Hill Brick does not have a brand name for the uneven traffic calming bricks and do not list them on their website.
6. Permeable smooth pavers for parking lots. The Pine Hill Brick brand name is Storm Pave. The brick spacing is no more than 1/2" apart. Top speed is 25 MPH for parking lot pavers. Permeable surfaces are a goal in the Pasadena Climate Action Plan.
7. Use smooth bricks for sidewalks and bike lanes.
8. Shipping Method for East Coast Manufacturers: Use Intermodal: Using multiple modes of transport, including rail, for shipping.
The use of uneven bricks for traffic calming was previously suggested to Public Works and/or Transportation at the District 6 Town Hall meeting on September 25,2024.
For more information from Pine Hill Brick, contact
Mr. Wait Steele, President
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Email: [email protected]
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#10 - Case Study - Winter Park, FL - Traffic Calming
Abstract - This Technical Bullet is a Case Study on the use of Pine Hall Brick's clay pavers in the streets in Winter Park, FL and how the brick pavers both slow down traffic and raised property values.
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of Winter Park, FL—an upscale city
known for its mansions, lakes and
fine shops just north of Orlando—
began in 1996. As engineers
started work on a streetscape
project to restore the main street,
Park Avenue, they uncovered
bricks under the asphalt that were
more than 80 years old and they
decided to use them as the new
paving material for the street.
"We wanted to bring Park Avenue
back to its original glory and make
it as historically accurate as
possible/' said Jim English, then
director of public works for Winter
Park. The streetscape project included a 10-block area with new sidewalks, landscaping and the "new" brick street.
Park Avenue - Winter Park, FL
The street was such a hit with residents that they began campaigning to have their neighborhood streets repaved in recycled brick. After the first streets were re-done. Winter Park found that brick streets raised surrounding property values 15 to 25 percent plus an unexpected benefit: traffic calming.
Residential Traffic Calming
Winter Park, like many other suburbs of a large city, found cut-through traffic to be a major problem particularly through residential neighborhoods with pedestrian traffic. On one major residential street, Pennsylvania Avenue/ anticipated cut-through traffic doubled to about 18,000 cars per day after the completion of a bordering residential area that used to be an old Navel station.
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Typical methods for controlling excessive
residential speed include a series of speed
bumps/speed humps or bump-outs that serve
as a "silent policeman" to slow traffic and
Winter Park had mixed results with these types
of measures. While effective at slowing overall
speed, there are drawbacks to geometric
design features including the impediment of
emergency vehicles, uneven traffic flow
(speeding up/slowing down) and aesthetic
concerns.
Looking for an answer, the city discovered a
bonus of the new brick streets—they make
drivers slow down. Because the reclaimed
bricks are uneven, they produce a rough sound
as cars ride over them, and cause drivers to
reduce their speed. This helped to curb the
problem of cut-through traffic from two major
highways that border Winter Park.
Winter Park City Engineer, Troy Attaway, noted
that traffic decreased on one of the main brick
streets by 29% from 8500 to 6000 cars per day
with a drop in average speed to 29 mph from
41 mph after bricking. "It's hard to believe but
the uneven bricks work better than speed bumps/' Attaway said.
One Problem: Brick Supply
Because recycled pavers are hard to come by, the city had to use some new pavers in the process. But, the new pavers were just too smooth. The city needed the recycled brick but could not find enough. When city officials were able to find harvested brick from other sources, it was prohibitively expensive. "The recycled bricks ranged in price from $3 to $5 a piece," said Attaway.
"What Winter Park needed were new
clay pavers of various heights with a rich,
dark color to match the old bricks/' said
Tom Harwood/ an Orlando area brick
distributor. "I knew the best thing to do
was to go directly to Pine hlall Brick and
see if they could help us." Pine Halt Brick
is the nation's largest supplier of clay
pavers.
Pine Hall Brick considers itself an expert in
making clay bricks that are uniform in
size. "They wanted us to make clay
pavers in varying thickness," said Fletcher
Steele, president of Pine Hall Brick. "This
was a new concept for us. We take great
pride in making uniform brick."
Pine Hall Brick agreed to alter its
manufacturing process to make the bricks
irregular and worked on creating a darker
colored paver to match Winter Park's
harvested brick. The result was pavers
that varied in thickness from 21/2 inches
to almost 3 inches. The standard
vehicular paver is 2 3/4 inches thick.
Pine Hall Brick was also able to formulate
a new color to match Winter Park's old
brick called Autumn. The color is now
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part Pine Hall Brick's regular stocking offerings. "But we don't offer the irregular thickness sizeas part of our standard line, said Steele. "Although, we would be happy to accommodate other communities or larger size commercial projects if they make a special request.
To date. Pine Mali brick has paved
about 200,000 square feet—
roughly a million pavers—in
Winter Park. "And we've got
about 200,000 more square feet
waiting to be installed," said Ted
Corvey, Pine Hall Brick's
marketing director and paver
business director. "In business,
it's rewarding to solve a
customer's problem and satisfy a
need. It's much more rewarding
when you know that your product
is creating a safer environment at
the same time."
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There is now a waiting list of Winter Park residents who want their neighborhood streetsrepaved in brick and because of the increase in property values, the residents agree to paypart of the cost. "If the next few years are anything like these last, we should add severalmore miles of brick paving to the city. The typical waiting list for a neighborhood is two to three years," Attaway said. Winter Park has bricked about 25% of its streets.
Winter Park is not alone in its quest for brick streets. USA Today reports that because of today's cookie-cutter style of urban development, cities and towns are looking for ways to addcharacter and charm to their communities. While Winter Park's program is one of the most extensive street restoration programs in the nation, communities all across the country like Columbus, OH, Champaign, IL, Davenport, IA, Houston, TX and Pauls Valley, OK are now investing in history by bricking their streets.
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I implore you not to proceed with the Greenway plans slated for the city. They are not a sensible solution for our traffic and certainly not cost-effective. The traffic on east Orange Grove Boulevard has already been affected by poor traffic planning. Please reconsider these plans and think about who will gain from this, certainly not the residents.
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