One Response to “Agenda, June 5 City Council meeting”

1. posted by Michael at June 5, 2007 9:48 am :
   

   Perhaps the statement given below, and quoted from the Poplar Lawn blog, ought to be the subject of the council meeting:

   Monday, May 28, 2007
   This Website Has Been Hijacked

   … despite the look of a slight gentrification, despite susbstantial financial investment by relatively new residents, despite endless meetings of committees and concerned citizens, and despite garbage cans in the park, Poplar Lawn is not getting better, it is getting worse. Prostitution… has dramatically increased. More important, crime, robbery, noise pollutiion, and obvious drug trafficking has increased as well. The media in Richmond and elsewhere periodically points to a Renaissance of sorts occurring in Petersburg, but they are really only talking about downtown where a few risk-takers are opening new businesses. … Wake up Poplar Lawn. Apply pressure, bug the cops, email the city council, make noise. …

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