This week there will be two meetings on the Sheep Mountain Parkway, one on Wednesday and the other Thursday, both start at 5pm where Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) personnel will burn through what’s left of the state budget using up overtime to show you all the neat graphics they spent money on, then at 5:30pm there will be NDOT people showing you the cool powerpoint presentation they spent what’s left of the state budget on, after that there will be some working groups wherein NDOT personnel will use up what’s left of the state budget trying to get you to buy into a huge freeway that you don’t want but that the casino and the real estate developers and the local paving companies really, really do.
The July 9th meeting will focus on the “vision” or lack thereof behind the project, and the July 10th will assume that the parkway is a foregone conclusion, and that your input is a waste of time, and concentrate on “alignment routes and corridor design issues,” which only matter, notice, if you’ve made up your mind to build the thing.
Nonetheless, a good turnout from local naysayers–as well as contacting your local city and county commissioners who are up for election this year might turn a few heads.
Note, too, that NDOT has been playing musical chairs by changing meeting times and the location. The meetings are now scheduled for here:
Sheepdip Parkway Meetings
July 9th and 10th
5 – 7 pm
Mountain Crest Neighborhood Services Center
4701 N. Durango Dr.
LV NV 89129 (map)
They seem to keep moving those meetings farther and farther away from us cantankerous Nor’Towners, don’t they?
And you know who you won’t see at the meeting? Folks like Bob Beers or Shelley Berkley or Tom Collins showing up to show some support to their constituents who don’t want the Sheepdip express. They are all welcome to prove me wrong, of course, and their challengers might want to show up and shake the hands of some sympathetic voters….
And don’t forget the immortal words of Las Vegas Councilman and Sheepdip Highway apologist Steve Ross, who needs to look for a new job:
Councilman Steve Ross, whose district includes the proposed freeway,
said the highway has been considered for years for the simple reason
that the city’s growth will one day demand it.
“Keep in mind, there was great opposition to the current … beltway
around the valley,” Ross said. “I remember all the naysayers who said
nobody would use it. Now look at it. Likewise with the Sheep Mountain
Parkway. Not that we have the money to build it today or in 10 years,
but we need that to be set aside for when the time comes.” (Sun)
Also this week: the North Las Vegas Allaince of Homeowner Associations and Concerned Folk will be meeting Tuesday:
DATE: TUESDAY JULY 8th
PLACE: ALIANTE LIBRARY—2400 DEER SPRINGS WAY. TEL. 839-2980
TIME: 6:00 P.M.
Clark County Commissioner Lawrence Weekly will be there. You can ask him if he has spent all of the discretionary fund money yet for this year. (Sun)
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