I've never understood why people flock to Whole Foods. Just just a giant, corporate, overpriced Safeway in green clothing. The farmers market or Fircrest Market are MUCH better alternatives. ...

CVS/Chase Back at Design Review - PLEASE SHOW UP AND SUPPORT THE DRB IN DEMANDING BETTER DESIGN! If we don't support our appointed officials, we get what we get.

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Below is the text of an email that i sent to our design review board members. They need our support and to hear our voices at the upcoming meeting.

Mr. Schurch, Mr. Douch, Mr. Beauchamp, Mr....

Here are some rough statistics from the current proposal:

80% of this site area is devoted to parking and vehicular traffic (not counting Barnes)
50% of the sidewalk and street frontage faces...

CVS and Chase are back at design review this Wednesday, October 19 at 3:00pm. You can read their letter, view plans and see the staff report supporting the project at the link below:
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The Barlow seems to be everything we say we want; pedestrian friendly, local businesses, a place to expand our farmer's market, utilizing land at the center of town where public transit is most...

Thanks to all who attended the design review meeting and spoke their concerns about the CVS project. I think the community's comments were heard and, judging by the comments of the committee, taken...

A few comments on previous posts:

1. The only way thoughts, comments or ideas can be useful is if they are framed in an understanding of the way the City works and what powers the City has to...

As most of you know, the developer representing CVS has appealed the Planning Commission's denial of the Negative Declaration to the City Council. This issue comes to the Council next Tuesday, July...

Here's a follow-up to my original posting. I attended a design review meeting Wednesday and confirmed that what is being proposed is a suburban strip center with a big CVS box with a drive thru...

Another vote for MailChimp. Very easy to use, imports your lists from lots of formats, good layout tools and decent templates. Chimp chatter is pretty funny sometimes too ... I like a business with...

For all that are concerned with the character of downtown, I urge you to review the building that CVS Pharmacy wants to put downtown. It is essentially a suburban stucco building with no windows or...