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Minyard, Brian
From:Malone, Walter
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To:Minyard, Brian
Subject:FW: PLEASE DENY HDC2019-023
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Subject: PLEASE DENY HDC2019-023
Dear Commissioners:
Once again I am asking you to DENY HDC2019-023. Please don’t allow another deferral. You can
waive your bylaws and you can hear this application. You can stop what your Chair calls “an endless
cycle of deferrals.”
I assure you this design isn’t getting any better. In fact, the more I study it, the more deeply I am
troubled that the LRHDC staff would EVER support such an inadequately designed plan that is so
incompatible with the district.
Did you notice the staff report fails to mention the METAL UTILITY BRIDGES that connect the
buildings and are spanned by METAL ROOFS? Did you notice the staff report is so short on
comparisons, it resorts to using Cumberland Towers as an example? What an insult! Do you think a
ONE LANE egress on a quiet side street to the 31-space underground parking deck is a good plan?
Why is there no NEIGHBORHOOD COMMENTS AND REACTION update to report the number of
citizen comments on this project?
Here's a rundown of the current opposition:
MacArthur Park Neighborhood Association
2
Quapaw Quarter Association
Preserve Arkansas
Recipients of the Parker Westbrook Lifetime Achievement Award in Historic Preservation
OUR.VOICES.MATTER. – STOP INCOMPATIBLE INFILL DEVELOPMENT AT 10 TH AND ROCK
petition – 237 signatories
70 emails were sent before the May meeting, I am waiting to receive a current count from the City
Multiple Facebook pages with combined memberships of over 14,000 are following this story.
The Quapaw Quarter Association issued an Advocacy Alert. Reporters at the Arkansas
Democrat/Gazette and the Arkansas Times have been notified.
The 10th and Rock neighborhood is filled with OUR.VOICES.MATTER. – STOP INCOMPATIBLE
INFILL DEVELOPMENT yard signs protesting the application.
The sooner you attend to this business and DENY this application, the sooner this developer can get
to work on a design that is appropriate to this district. We’re all willing to join that discussion.
Thank you again for your service. Your job is difficult but this decision is easy!
DENY HDC2019-023
Sincerely yours,
Missy McSwain