Oak Creek’s Howell Avenue Just Keeps Getting Busier and Busier And Busier…
Friday, July 31, 2009 at 11:03AM 
According to a story that recently appeared in FranklinNOW, “A bank could be the newest addition to a part of Oak Creek that promises to only get busier...”
The story reports that a yet to be named bank, is planning a one-story, 5500-square foot building in the 8100 block of S. Howell Avenue. This area of Oak Creek is already home to such popular, retail businesses as Woodman's Grocery Store, Buffalo Wild Wings, and a Sonic restaurant, which is currently under construction.
With the addition of this new bank, Oak Creek’s Plan Commission is becoming concerned about potential traffic congestion in this area of Howell Avenue; prompting Oak Creek Mayor Dick Bolender to suggest that developers take a hard look at ways to create the best possible traffic flow for the bank, which will include drive-through service.
Oak Creek’s stretch of Howell Ave. from roughly Rawson Ave., to just south of Puetz Rd., is steadily becoming what any reasonably-minded person would see as Oak Creek’s blossoming, downtown. This view is further fueled by the fact that this same area will also include Oak Creek’s New Civic Center Development.
Here’s the $2 Billion question: What incentive do Oak Creek City leaders have to promote economic activity in the OakCreek-Franklin Joint South 27th Street Corridor Project?
At last night’s Joint 27th Street Steering Committee Meeting, I posed this question to committee members. Here is the BATTLE JOINED Livescribe recording of my comments during the citizen comment period.
Franklin Alderman Steve Olson and Oak Creek committee member, Marie Myszkowski were kind enough to respond to my comments.
Next week BATTLE JOINED will take-up, and reveal, the great folly of the 27th Street Corridor Project—from a Franklin taxpayer’s perspective—and let its readers know what Franklin’s elected officials aren’t telling you about this future, so-called “unifying place for the cities of Franklin and Oak Creek.”
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RE. : Next week BATTLE JOINED will take-up, and reveal, the great folly of the 27th Street Corridor Project—from a Franklin taxpayer’s perspective—and let its readers know what Franklin’s elected officials aren’t telling you about this future, so-called “unifying place for the cities of Franklin and Oak Creek.”
I'll get a leg up rant on this now if you don't mind.
This entire project from the git go is about as popular with local citizens as the ACLU's endeavor to remove all crosses from Arlington National Cemetery [don't get me started on that cretinism].
The politicians involved in the disreputable "corridor connivance" have never displayed any real transparency so the public knows just what they are up to. Nevertheless, it is mighty clear that nobody wants it based on their good common sense. The exception: the politicians who feed off of the profiteers.
This cabal works like elves cloistered in a workshop rubbing their hands together conspiring to develop a proctological surprise for the taxpayers in spite of the taxpayer"s resounding NO to this special self-aggrandizing scheme.....something like what happened when our National Budget was unethically jammed home at 3 AM in Washington by the socialists.
Honest taxpayer representation by the unsavory politicians involved is practically a non-entity and they have no conscience displayed by repeatedly going against the grain of taxpayers wishes.
We can't let these gangsters handcuff us. Let's have a referendum vote and end this crap once and for all.