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discourage them.
• Put a moratoreum on used-car dealerships, for
starters. They are a blight. Secondly, relocate
u li es. Thirdly, add sidewalks and landscaping.
It is not pedestrian-friendly, and it is not a rac-
ve. // I work in Downtown, and I hate seeing
how Division Street has disintegrated.
• Get rid of used car lots
• It would be great to clean up the area,get rid
of those car dealers and that old motel! that
gives the en re street a disrepUT Arlingtonble
look,like it is a low class/street walkers area!
Very unappealing
• Arlington really has no such thing as a down-
town as I have seen in any other city, we need it!
• It’s me to replace the used car lots with devel-
opment that es in with the Cowboys and UT
Arlington.
• Get rid of the car lots. They Encourage crime.
• Spend Money on that area!!!
• one thing i have dreamt about is that li le
former old car lot with the half-circle building
just north of the tracks on Center St... i see a
donut/sandwich/ice cream shop there with
circular outdoor tables and benches with
umbrellas.
• I hope that this is done quickly, I really like what
is being done on Abram St.
• It needs change !!
• Maybe a block of nothing but an que store mall.
• Change it for Arlingtons sake.
• I don’t mean to harp on the car lots but the me
has come, and even passed,for these businesses
to move somewhere else. Like it or not they
degrade the area. Also, the Division Street
corridor absolutly needs underground u li es.
• We have to address transporta on needs of the
ci zens whether they are students or long me
residents.
• Give us something that is more like Grapevine
than Garland.
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• I would like to see Division Street as a pre y
street that provides a lot of vehicular traffi c to
Downtown and to the Entertainment District. I
don’t really see it as a pedestrian friendly area,
but it can support businesses that have parking
behind.
• It was hard for me to answer a lot of these
ques ons because I feel that Division Street is so
ugly, I go out of my way to avoid driving on it.
• LOTS OF LUCK
• Has to be a place where people are a racted
and feel safe and non- threatened.
• I am not as cri cal of this area as some. It might
not be pre y but it isn’t v acant or dangerous.
We need to make sure not to alienate too many
• of the current businesses in our eff orts to
improve the area. Not everything has to be slick
and fancy to be fun and produc ve.
• This will take me. Currently the highest and
best use from a dollars and cents point of view is
used car dealership. Thye will pay a premium for
the land and buildings. It is unlikely they will be
pushed out any me soon.
• The main problem as we all know is. We can not
regulate this into happening. It has been trying
before around the city and has stopped
• progress. Money and profi ts cause progress, not
over regula on. I would suggest ge ng input
from Wes Jury, he may or may not have an idea.
• The plan needs to compliment the traffi c
calming improvements that will hopefully be
considered on Abram Street.
• In the eff ort to improve the economic environ-
ment and promote the dis nct character of Divi-
sion Street, it is important that any proposed-
development be market driven. Currently, there
is a diff erence between the price that exis ng
land owners would sell their proper es for and
the amount that most developers could aff ord
to pay to make a project feasible. This is, in part,
the reason that outside funding from the city or
other en ty is needed(See 16. and 17. above).
Further, restric ng land uses and adding more
regula ons would exacerbate this situa on.
Also, there are many long me property owners
along Division Street who regularly pay their
property taxes. The recommenda ons from
the Division Street Corridor Strategy Project
should promote the exis ng businesses and not
The responses above are stated exactly as they were provided by Ci zens.
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