Following a 90-minute closed session discussion Monday, Oct. 24, the Cherokee Tribal Council voted to allocate an additional $55 million to Kituwah LL.
I applaud the members of the One Feather Editorial Board for taking a pro-economic growth and pro-safety stance on the issue of parking downtown. While I admit to not having some key information to make informed decisions (not entirely my fault, because much of the information is discussed behind closed sessions), and I may not be the sharpest pencil in the pack (although I consider myself smarter than a 5
th grader – no offense to 5
th graders), I have common sense enough to see the obvious, just like you.
It could very well be that something may be in the pipeline that hasn’t been made public. We know that something must change downtown. It is illogical to have two or three useable parking spaces in front of a store that might have a capacity of 20 or 30 or more people. When you string several stores of that size in two rows, the inevitable result is parking congestion. We know that the speed limit is more likely to not be observed downtown and that crosswalks are poorly