City of Asheville Staff Emails: Occupy Asheville

From: Jonathan Feldman

Subject: Re: Occupy Asheville update

Date: 2011-10-13 22:14:58

To:

I shall and thanks!

On Oct 13, 2011, at 10:01 PM, "Jeff Richardson"
wrote:



Thanks. Have fun in NY. Tell your parents hello!

Sent from my iPhone

On Oct 13, 2011, at 5:12 PM, "Jonathan Feldman" <
JFeldman@ashevillenc.gov> wrote:



Hang in there.



From: Jeff Richardson
Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2011 5:04 PM
To: councilgroup
Cc: Bob Oast; All Department Directors; Melissa
Williams; Marsha Stickford; Jon Fillman; Harry Brown; Lt. Stony Gonce;
Captain Daryl Fisher; Lt. Jamee Crawford; Shannon Tuch; Dawa Hitch;
Kelly Whitlock; Jannice Ashley
Subject: Occupy Asheville update



Dear Council:



Since Tuesday evening, at the direction of city council,
staff has reviewed city owned public spaces in an effort to provide
potential public space options for Occupy Asheville to occupy for an
indefinite period of time. We just finished a meeting with
representatives from that group and covered in detail three public
spaces that city staff has analyzed and are prepared to work with
through the normal permitting process. Those parcels are:



1. Bottom of Lexington Avenue under the I-240
Overpass (specifically the public metered parking area) in that area.
This area can be offered on a 24-7 basis and there are no permitted
events there for the remainder of the calendar year.
2. City employee lot nearest adjacent to Marjorie
Street and corner of Valley Street. (Gated currently). This lot can be
permitted for their use from 7pm-7am daily.
3. City street level public parking lot on Rankin
Street (two options), across and beside the Rankin Avenue Parking
garage. 7pm to 7am daily.



City staff answered questions regarding each of these
options, and explained the expedited steps to quickly permit any of
these locations, at their request.



Next Steps:



The group is going back and discussing these options
today and tomorrow. I have a follow up meeting with the group tomorrow
at 3pm to discuss this issue further.



Note:



There was considerable interest in occupying a public
park in downtown, within eye sight and sound proximity to government
buildings and banks. Staff explained that we do not have administrative
authority to allow occupying of the parks past 10pm daily. I will
apprise you of any further developments tomorrow.



Let me know if you have questions. Mark Barrett from the
ACT was there for the last part of the meeting, and interviewed group
members, and several city staff.



Jeff Richardson

Assistant City Manager

P.O. Box 7148

City of Asheville, NC 28802

828-259-5602



Our Quality of Service, Your Quality of Life

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