[OldNorth] New PW July 12 hearing signs

[John Lofland]

Public Works has today erected a series of large, orange and black 
signs, about one a block, both sides on Fifth between B and L.

The text announces a July 12 roadway modification hearing.

Many of the signs are attached to existing posts, but many are on new 
posts the receiving places for which are installed in several blocks. 
I had noticed these, covered with orange cones, when they were empty 
(they are screw-in pipe receptacles) and wondered what sort of sign 
might be planned for them.

So now we know.

PW looks to me as though it has gone "all out" on this and spent at 
least several thousand dollars to make an announcement of a public 
hearing (using expensive, one-time use, metal signs).

My take on this is that PW is playing to the max to defeat 
humanization of Fifth Street and to expand a brutalizing and hostile 
industrial highway through the heart Davis.

The new post screw-in places have been in construction over several 
months. So we now know that PW has been plotting this move from very 
early in the process.

And some of were told the hearing was likely to be in September. That 
now seems doubtful!

John Lofland