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Hi everybody,
We hope that you had an awesome April! If April showers bring May flowers, then what do May flowers bring? Give up? It's pilgrims! hahahaha, ok, enough corny humor. Let's talk about what's coming up on the calendar! Please read ALL 3 items below. Like last time, i encourage you to PRINT this! :) #1 - This Tuesday, May 2nd -- regular city council meetings @ 351 W. Center St: * Council Study Meeting @ 6:00pm. (no public hearings during study meetings) -- presentation by the director of the Provo Housing Authority. -- discussion on the Mayor's proposed 2006-2007 fiscal year budget. -- requests for information by the council. * Regular Council Meeting @ 7:00pm -- As always -- 15 minutes for any Questions from you the citizens to the Council and Mayor! -- a resolution on adding personal property to the surplus list and disposing of it. -- a resolution to establish a Provo City Investment Fund. -- Public Hearing to consider annexing 1.25 acres at 2400 S. Alaska Ave. (SE Provo) -- Public Hearing to consider removing Assisted Living Facilities and Residential Health Care Facilities as a conditional zoning use. City-wide impact! To get more details on Tuesday night, make sure to read the full agenda: You can find a PDF link to it at the top of the homepage --> http://provocitizens.net/ #2 - * Planning Commission Meeting on Wednesday, May 10th @ 5:30pm! Why do we mention this? Well, there's a very hot item at the end of that meeting. It's a Public Hearing on redefining the city's legal definition of "family" for zoning purposes as recommended by some on the city council. I agree that it should be tightened to only include immediate family but at the same time I think they should also consider adding a definition for "extended family". They should NOT discriminate as we're all part of the human family -- one big family -- no matter what our ancestral lineage or marital status or familial status is! Councilman Steve Turley said that some of their actions are taking the "3 to 2" singles fight down to "2 to 0". That may be slightly exaggerated but there's definitely truth in that statement, no doubt about it!! There should be NO discrimination, either directly or in effect, against singles or against those that currently do not have the blessings of owning property. I sincerely call on the the city council to take the lead in healing the bad feelings between singles and a minority of married adults in this town. It's not imagined -- it's real and the current zoning laws are one of the major points of contention between the majority of adults and between the minority that are married. The current laws are flat-out in effect discriminatory and in effect segregatory. I'll give you more cold hard facts with a plethora of evidences very soon. I do not make such claims lightly. We've been researching this for a very long time. We've held back for a few years on this because we've believed that we should try to make peace on this and be reconciliatory on this instead of being adversarial through the courts, which is justified by the way, but I'd rather avoid that route completely as it's prone to stirring up contention. I strongly believe that the vast majority of the hearts of the people of this good city are with us or will stand with us very soon on this issue. We believe that fairness and equality for all will prevail in due time. So stay tuned because you know we'll keep you informed as we have since 2002 on this issue! :) #3 - We still need to raise $225 to file the state and federal paperwork as a non-profit educational foundation through http://nhf.org. If you'ld like to donate, please write a check out to ProvoCitizens.net. Yes, all donations are tax-deductible. :) We thank those that have donated already, even those that donated 1 or "2 dollars"! So far since 2 weeks ago there's been $60 raised! :) Thank you! Please call or reply via email if you have any questions. And as always, please forward this email to anybody and everybody living in our beautiful city! Most Sincerely, Roger Brown Chairman, ProvoCitizens.Net 356-1032 P.S. Come join us in the discussion forums -- http://provocitizens.net/forums/ |
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