Lewis Geyer / Staff Photographer
Traffic lines Main Street near First Avenue on Dec. 19. City staff has begun forming the Main Street Corridor Plan, a new initiative, envision fostering redevelopment and new uses of much of the real estate along Main.

Here is a selection of comments on stories posted by the Times-Call on its Facebook page Jan. 5-11, 2019.

Main Street Corridor Plan could include reconsideration of automotive business land use

Wayne Holdran: This has socialist Democrats all over it! Go home!

Valerie Volpe: How about focusing on the derelict properties, i.e the old “historic” jail; the corner on Ninth and Main, with the abandoned gas station building; and Ralph’s corner; old falling down motels that have been converted to apartments, to name a few? Doesn’t seem fair to raise taxes to drive out mom-and-pops type businesses just to make room for more big box stores to ruin the flavor of town. There will be a lot of mom-and-pop businesses that will not be able to afford that. Last time I checked, auto businesses are a legal and law-abiding business in America.

Angela Wegznek Owen: The least of our problems are the handful of auto places on Main Street. More like not enough parking in the popular areas and way too many falling apart abandoned derelict businesses on the northern end.

Thomas Hejlik: How bout instead they focus on redoing Hover so every time I’m out on that road doing a delivery I’m not breaking my back bouncing like a shake weight.

Tim Starr: Central planning didn’t work for the Soviet Union, and it doesn’t work in U.S. cities, either. Allow any land use, let the market decide the most valuable use.

Casey Jones: Hey Longmont, why don’t you just get rid of all the commercial industrial zoning. Eventually it’s just going to be microbreweries and high-density residential.

Dave Larison: Once again, our liberal city council is trying to copy the Boulder mentality of being anti-automobile in any way possible.

Susan Beane Hosking: Government picking winners and losers. Too bad we ever gave them that power.

Christopher Antonucci Goffredo: Car dealers and pawn shops are so unbecoming of a nice town. Great to hear (City Council) is taking action

Travis Pryor: Yes because then we can get more bars, pot shops and pawn shops on Main Street

Matthew Damick: Apparently, no one has seen enough value in these properties to make an offer to the current property owners to sell.

Bo Rodgers: Get out and voice your opinions to City Council. Why are you guys on Facebook talking to the (Times-Call) like they run the city?

Longmont City Council approves amended prairie dog ordinance

Dan Gust: Thank you, Council Members Finley and Martin, for a little common sense. Lets get on with running the city for the human residents.

Dave Garcia: Finally, some common sense from the City Council.

Joe McBride: I like the prairie dogs.

Lyons residents head out of town for pharmacist, doctors — and soon may have to for hardware and news

Nick Stumpp: Don’t live in the mountains then.

Cody Ray Hodges: You cant live in mountains for solitude and then complain about your drive to society. … Sounds like the people that built houses by Red Rocks complaining about noise.

Longmont may ask voters for a permanent street-fund sales tax

Suzy Zimmerman: I live by a train track and have all my life, I like the sound of the train and their horns, it helps me sleep and I know the horns alert drivers.

Josh Grimsley: I live on East Ninth within a block of the railroad tracks. I hear the trains all the time, day and night. Know what, though? So can pedestrians and motorists, which is a good thing. Trains were around before any of us, so deal with it. Loud equals alive!

Rodney Smith: A for-profit entity is lowering the quality of life for citizens of Longmont. Why exactly are we supposed to pay for this? I’m sure Longmont has a noise ordinance of some sort, so obviously the community values some level of peace and quiet. I get it: A diesel electric locomotive can’t be silent, can’t even be quiet really, but come on, hand this for-profit a bill for these crossing and call it a day.

Tim Starr: This is bad for several reasons: 1) Sales taxes are regressive, costing the poor a higher percentage of their income than the rich. 2) Bonds are also regressive, since the poor can’t afford them but still pay the taxes that pay for them. 3) General tax revenue shouldn’t be spent on special improvements only for some neighborhoods and not others. Taxes to fund such improvements should be restricted to the specific neighborhoods that benefit most from them.

Kyndal Paige Arnold: Quiet zone? I’ve lived in Longmont since ’78, and I live by the tracks now. I don’t understand why people complain about whatever noise a train makes if they’re going to live by or anywhere around the train track. Doesn’t bother me. People are ridiculous!

Jared Polis sworn in as Colorado governor: ‘This is a moment in history’

Lupe Lowenberg Olson: Sad time for Colorado.

Debra Williams Kansgen: Yay! I’m excited and proud to be in a state where all people count.

Rodd Sanders: State-line signs will no longer be: Welcome to Colorful Colorado. They’ll now say: Welcome to Colorfornia.

Dava Money: I pray he and his family do well. Proud of Colorado.

Derek Petrie: Every moment is a moment in history.

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