6-Oh, wait two abstained ?!? 
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Hallelujah. Glad our city got this one right
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Great to hear it passed unanimously and we don’t have to have this worry anymore! I guess the Save RHA tshirts are already vintage now.
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The other 2 skipped the meeting for whatever reasons.
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It was suggested they each had their own reason and wasn’t to avoid voting.
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Think the young’uns call that Sus
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Mary Black said on twitter that she has a fever today. Don’t know why Christina Jones didn’t appear.
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Yippee hope you can all hear me shout all the way from Boston!!!
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Mighty convenient timing. I’m counting Black and Jones as NO votes and encourage anyone in their districts to as well, when considering your options this November
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I’m sure that the rest of the council didn’t mind them being missing today. They didn’t need the buzzkill.
I watched the entire thing on YouTube, and a few of the council members bent over backward to be sympathetic to the “no” concerns before voting yes. It was nice to see that the group who spoke in favor of the closing was so diverse and representative of the citizens of the city.
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Let’s all be grateful it’s over, we won’t be losing red hat, and it will be a better facility
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Thinking that Jones is in bad fix when Stef Mendel calls her anti-Israel. Jones refused LR questionaire, so she apparently she is in the camp of the Palestine disrupters.
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On my daily walk, I passed through the stretch of South that will be closed. I could barely move through there safely with all the traffic.
Here’s a bonus photo of Capital Square.
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Won’t be much more planning to do for the Planning Commission if downtown’s largest revenue generator goes away. How stupid lol
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Yall. Of course the Planning Commission isn’t going to approve something that goes against the best interests of city planning. It’s the Council’s job to weigh that recommendation against other criteria.
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It was a 5-4 vote to reject. So it’s not like “obviously” they had to. 
I get they have their reasons. But this is getting absurd.
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Why did the Planning Commission vote after city council? Isn’t that backwards? How does city council make an educated decision without the planning commission’s input?
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We voted on the street closure, the next step is the comp plan amendment, to remove the street from our planning documents and policies. Our Planning Director said there would be no need for the comp plan amendment if we hadn’t voted to close the street. I understand it seems backwards. Vote on comp plan amendment is 10/15. Red Hat needs both to proceed.
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