Opiate addiction treatment clinic can duly kicked.

Triumph of the NIMBY Progressives?

Council Kick-Dat-Can: Looks like someone wants to open an opiate addiction treatment clinic in the 3rd council district. Could you please use your drugs out in the county?

Well, the presidential election will fix the problem, right?

New Albany bars new suboxone, methadone clinics for six months; Moratorium lasts six months, by Jerod Clapp (News and Tribune)

NEW ALBANY — No new methadone or suboxone clinics can pop up in New Albany for the next six months, after a moratorium on such opioid treatment facilities was approved by the city council Monday night.

The resolution passed unanimously following an amendment that excludes drug treatment facilities that offer counseling and referral services, but the discussion included concerns about addicts, where they get treatment and the effect on the neighborhoods near those facilities.

Greg Phipps, vice president and District 3 councilman, said as the city prepares to revamp some of its zoning and code requirements next summer, careful planning of appropriate placement for those facilities is important.

Council Kick-Dat-Can: Looks like someone wants to open an opiate addiction treatment clinic in the 3rd council district. Could you please use your drugs out in the county?

Tonight there's a city council meeting. Maybe I'll go this time. I'd like to see Coffey wearing his "Make America Hate Again" button.

Do they offer them in beanies?

Reading between the lines ... because we're about to advance the cause of comprehensive planning by packing an advisory board with yes-men and functionaries unable to "plan" their way through a wet beer label, there must be a moratorium on the establishment of clinics dealing with opiate addiction, at least until such a time as the comprehensive luminaries establish which beaks are to be wetted by which subterranean sluices of campaign finance enhancement (Opiate Clinic Section), this delay coming at a high tide of local opiate addition, but Hunter S. Thompson had Richard M. Nixon say, "Fuck the doomed," and as Mayor Jeff Gahan once remarked about the impoverished among us ... say, can't we just dump them out in the county somewhere?

They'll still vote Democratic, right? And then Seabrook can take care of them.

The resolution reproduced above is credited to Greg Phipps, which may be because whatever opiate addiction clinic is being proposed will land in his district, or owing to the luck of the "introduce this ordinance" draw, or even as an insider joke played by Paddy Mac, so the biggest unanswered question is whether the Scott Blair Resolution Vote Coin Flip will result in an actual vote (gasp) or another abstention on the basis of "none of my business except when it is, according to criteria so obscure that even Dr. Strange couldn't decipher them."

If the opiate addiction clinic sure to have been mentioned somewhere in a back corridor is to be located in Blair's council district, the answer should be obvious:

Resolutions. Good!

At least he has the Rice Bowl. Wake me when it's over, will you? The Green Mouse is on holiday this week, aiming to prove whether it is possible to get drunk enough to endure Wednesday morning.

Secret City Hall memo revelation: Jeffersonville's "auto moratorium" is New Albany's golden ... shower.

January 26, 2016

Dear Mayor Gahan

Yo -- now HERE's what I've been talking about. 

Those eggheads over in Jeff must be reading Gillenwater's blog posts (not that I ever read, those things, I hope you know that) and they want to chase the auto businesses off 10th Street. 

Well, here it is, on a silver platter for us -- we're talking JOBS at auto parts stores and parking lots, all up and down Spring Street because heck, that's the first place they see crossing that creek from another county like I do every day, and I bet ol' smarty-pants Speck never even THOUGHT about us swooping in and stealing those JOBS from Mike Moore. 

Pillsbury, Schmillsbury -- and heck, they don't need fiber optic to warehouse school buses or sell you some car wax, do they? 

We need to get Redevelopment right on this, TIF out some big league incentives, and start leveling some of those so-called historic houses along Spring Street  -- that councilman's on payroll, right? Shit, we don't even need Coffey for this one.

I'll show 'em complete streets. I mean, WE will. 

Respectfully,

D Duggins, Dog Park Coordinator 

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They just write themselves, folks.

Jeffersonville City Council considers auto moratorium, by Elizabeth Beilman (Dutch Lane Plain Dealer)

JEFFERSONVILLE — With 10th Street revitalization in mind, the Jeffersonville City Council initiated the first steps in passing a six-month moratorium on all new and expanding automotive businesses throughout the city ...

 ... The ordinance states that "auto related uses are being expanded and new auto related uses are locating throughout the 10th Street corridor which are not consistent with the city's comprehensive plan ..."

The new planning and zoning director has said he would like 10th Street to attract more sit-down restaurants, entertainment businesses and other uses that would make the street a destination.