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WASHINGTON, DC 20510-1501
The Honorable Ernest W. Lehman
City of Iowa City
410 East Washington Street
Iowa City, Iowa 52240-1826
Dear Mayor Lehman:
November 16, 1999
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Thank you for writing with your kind words of appreciation for my
efforts to secure funding for Iowa City Transit's Intermodal
Transportation Facility.
Please know that I will continue to serve the citizens of Iowa
City as best I can in order to enhance economic prospects for the
community.
Finally, I look forward to receiving more information about the
ground breaking and ribbon cutting ceremonies for the new
facility. Thanks again for writing and keep in touch!
~j~~incerely,
~~rassley
United States Senator
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FINANCE
JUDICIARY
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Grace, Della McGrath, Barbara Stimmel, and Kristin Summerwill
November 22, 1999
~NOV ~ ~ 1999
CITY MANAGERS OFFICE
Dear Mayor Lehman and Members of the Iowa City Council,
"The Johnson County Historical
Society
~erves the public
· by fuxlhe~ng an ' ' 'on
o~ ~ ~o~ ~ ~~'~
of a~o Johnson County COmmunity,
through education,
preservation
and intapretatiot"
As you may be aware, the Johnson County Historical Society is in a period of transition,
having had a change in Executive Directors this past summer. Laurie Robinson resigned in July
and I assumed that responsibility in October. Because of your long history of strong support for
JCHS many things have been accomplished. With your continued financial support we cannot
only build on past successes, we can be in a position to reach out and respond to our future
challenges and new opportunities. "It is a seedbed of new beginnings!"
It is within this framework that we respectfully request that you continue to grant an
increase in support. Our request would be for an 11% increase above the current $4500 for a
total appropriation of $5,000. This support would help us to handle the increasing development
needs of a growing vital Society. This would represent only $.08 per resident of Iowa
CIty (based on special 1996 census)l We would commit ourselves to aggressively seek
remaining resources through grants, memberships, and other special funds.
Our mission, stated above, reflects our commitment to stimulate ideas and interest in
our rich and diverse Johnson County cultural heritage, of which Iowa City is a significant part;
and, our challenge is to bring that diversity together in a way to provide a common sense of
identity. Our mission is achieved in the following ways: (Stated also are some of our dreams and
vision of strengthening and enhancing our service not only to Iowa City but larger Johnson
County public as well.)
LIbrary. Archives and Artlfacts:
We have over 10,000 photos, documents, textiles, books, and 3-dimensional objects and
these are central to our ability to serve the Johnson County community. Year-to-date we have
had approximately 100 requests for information. This service is provided free!
Our dream: To have adequate space to develop a library where our collections could
be stored efficiently and where students, business persons, architects and the general public can
come and research information that they are seeking.
Updated computer system/web-site presence: This is critical if we are to
expand our audience and visibility.
Exhibits: During 1999 there were 5 exhibits. Our historic artifacts are used in exhibits and
are designed to help our constituents in their understanding of county history and its part in
creating a vision for the future. These are offered free to the public.
Our dream: Adequate office, storage and exhibit space. This would provide room for
a core exhibit that could trace and reflect the development of Johnson County from its early
settlement period to its mix of rural and urbanized diversity today. We would seek to
incorporate interactive elements and technology to help share the story.
Educational Programs:
Children: 523 children participated in our summer day camp at City Park.
Our dream: Reinstitute Traveling Trunk presentations (hands on museum artifacts)
in schools. Cultivate one room schoolhouse experience for school field trips (already 5 classes
for 105 students have signed up to participate during our holiday programming!) We want to
design intergenerational opportunities also.
Adults: Approximately 3,641 persons participated in special events such as History
for Lunch series, Local Lore presentations, and the popular spring barn tour. We have just
started our special holiday programming and 48 persons attended the first event!
Walk-Ins/Tours at sites (Plum Grove in Iowa City, One room schoolhouse
& Heritage Museum In Coralville and Johnson County Asylum): Approximately
4,893 children & adults participated.
Except for special tours, these services are provided free.
Our dream: Reinstitute Speakers Bureau.
Membershil~: Individual and Corporate
We have approximately 800 members who pay between $15 and $250 for annual membership.
Our dream: Grow people in their membership giving and to cultivate and strengthen
corporate memberships; as well as, look for ways to network and partner with other
organizations.
The Iowa City Counc~ and Johnson County Historical Society both work to
serve the public through building community. The two intertwine in that
together we embrace past, present, and future. We feel our work Is vital
because It Is through our past that we can understand our future. With your
continued assistance we can remain viable. Thank you for your consideration
and I look forward to meeting with you at a later date.
Very truly yours,
Margaret Wieting
Executive Director
CITY MANAGER'S OFFlii ~ ~ ~p~~ ~ j~
Snowy Owl
John Cornaccbio
IOWA CITY
P.O. Box 64
IOWA CITY, IOWA
52244-0064
(319) 354-0863
1999 J
Ct'II MA,NJ GER'S OFFICE
November 24, 1999
Dear City Councilors,
On behalf of the Downtown Association of Iowa City, I would like ask you to consider contributing $1000 for the purchase of
Holiday lights for the dawntown area next winter. There is no doubt that the lights lend an festive air to the downtown and put
people in the holiday spirit which may translate into purchases at downtown stores and meals at downtown restaurants.
However, downtown is a center of business and pleasure for more than just merchants. Many Iowa Citians work downtown, live
downtown, use the library and the playground, attend classes, and spend leisure time downtown. We have many visitors during
the holiday season and the downtown is often the image they take away with them when they leave. The lights make the city
look good, leave a lasting impression and brighten everyone' s spirits.
The Downtown Association makes a sizeable contribution to the lighting project every year, both of time and money. We spent
$400 this year for additional lights and drop cords. Volunteers spent several hours directing the operation and downtown
restaurants provided several hundred dollars worth of lunches for the crew from Oakdale. Next year, with more outlets available
on Clinton Street and with the new Iowa Avenue streetscape, we will need even more lights as well as more donations. Therefore
we would like to have this commitment from you.
The lights bring many favorable comments from citizens, and from the press (at least as of today). We feel that the lights creat
more than a commercial shopping environment--although that is desirable end in itself in preserving a diverse mix of retail and
restaurants downtown--it also creates commumty. It makes downtown a place where people want to gather and enjoy this
Sincerely
Cathy Weingeist 7
Johnson County
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Jonathan Jordahl, Chair
Charles D. Duffy
Michael E. Lehman
Sally Stutsman
Carol Thompson
November 23, 1999
RECEIVED
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
Ron O'Neil
Airport Manager
1801 South Riverside Drive
Iowa City, Iowa 52246
Dear Mr. O'Neil:
Chair
JS/jh
During the formal meeting of the Board of Supervisors on November 23, 1999, Mark Menefee
and James Amlong were appointed to the Johnson County/Iowa City Airport Zoning Board of
Adjustment. Attached is a list of the new members.
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Thank you.
Sincerely, ~1~~
n Jord
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Enclosure
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JOHNSON COUNTY/IOWA CITY AIRPORT ZONING
BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT MEMBERS
TERM TERM
BEGINS EXPIRES
James Amlong (Replaced Stephen Nov. 23 Dec. 31
Highway 6 SE Radosevich) 1999 2001
Iowa City, Iowa 52240
Res: 351-1140
Mark Menefee (Replaced Eldon
3 155 Hawthorn Court NE Moss)
Solon, Iowa 52240
Res: 848-8260
Nov. 23 Feb. 26
1999 2004
AT&T
November 29, 1999
Mayor Ernie Lehman
City of Iowa City
410 East Washington Street
Iowa City, IA 52240
AT&T Broadband & Internet Services
Dear Mayor Lehman:
In our continuing effort to keep you informed AT&T Cable Services (formally TCI) will be
implementing certain adjustments to some service prices effective with January billing.
You will note that there is no increase to basic or expanded services nor to installation
prices. The only changes are in elective services such as AT&T Digital Cable and
premium movie services. This is the first increase in digital cable since its launch in
June 1998. Since that time, many channels have been added including Noggin, a new
children's channel from Nickelodeon and Holidays and Happenings DMX music channel.
We believe our customers will continue to see AT&T Digital Cable as an outstanding
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Our commitment to our customers is to offer the best products with the highest level of
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the-art technology as we strive to deliver the very best in picture quality and
uninterrupted service.
Legal notice of these changes will be provided in The Press Citizen on or after
December 1, 1999. Customers will also receive a message on their bill, which they will
begin receiving around December 22, with the revised rate structure and an explanation
of the changes. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at 319-
395-7801 ext. 292.
Sincerely,
Adene M. Heck
General Manager
AT&T Cable Services
Attachment
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NOTICE OF PRICE ADJUSTMENT
AT&T Cable Services
Effective with January bills, AT&T Cable Services will make the following price changes in the
communities listed below. The service rate adjustment(s) reflect updated inflation, applicable franchise
related costs and programming fees, among other factors.
Iowa City, Coralville, University Heights, and parts &Johnson County
Current New
HBO $13.00 $14.00
Cinemax $13.00 $14.00
Showtime $11.00 $12.00
STARZ! $6.75 $7.10
Encore $1.75 $2.10
STARZ!/Encore $6.99 $7.69
TMC $8.50 $9.50
All pay channel combo packages will increase by $2.00.
Digital Cable
Bronze Package (new subs only)
Silver Package (new subs only)
Gold Package
Platinum Package
$10.00 $12.00
$42.95 $47.95
$49.95 $54.95
$56.95 $61.95
$62.95 $67.95
If you have questions please contact us at:
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City of Iowa City
MEMORANDUM
=12-07-99
5f(7)
Date:
November 29, 1999
To:
From:
City Clerk
Doug Ripley, JCCOG Traffic Engineering Planner~e'
Re:
Designation of fourteen (14) metered parallel parking spaces on the east side of
the 10 block of North Dubuque Street
As directed by Title 9, Chapter 1, Section 3B of the City Code, this is to advise the City Council of
the following action. Unless directed otherwise by the City Council, this action will occur on or
shortly after December 8, 1999.
Action
Pursuant to Section 9-1-3A(17) of the City Code, fourteen (14) parking meters will be installed on
the east side of the 10 block of North Dubuque Street. The spaces will also be signed for "No
Parking 2 a.m.-6 a.m. Tow Away Zone" consistent with other metered areas in downtown Iowa
City.
Comment
This action is being taken at the City Council's direction to provide the maximum number of
parallel parking spaces in the downtown area. On the west side of the 10 block of North Dubuque
Street metered parking spaces were installed in September, 1997. It was the intent at that time
that once the biology building construction wall was removed metered parallel parking spaces
would also be placed on the east side. The spaces will have 60-minute time limits.
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Marian Karr
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kscoville@elmhurst.kl 2.il.us
Sunday, December 05, 1999 10:06 PM
council@iowa-city.org
Ernest Lehman; mayor
Campus Drinking
To the Iowa City City Council:
As a parent of a University of Iowa freshman and as an educator, I was
dismayed to read the article in the Parent Times on campus drinking. Had I
realized that Iowa City, unlike other campus towns in Iowa, allowed
underage students into bars, I would have given careful consideration to
sending my out-of-state tuition dollars to a different university.
As the parent of a high school junior who has been invited to apply for the
Honors program admitting highly qualified juniors to attend the University
a year early and who would hopefully remain through medical school, I may
have to reconsider her application to attend school where a city council
chooses to ignore or allow underage and illegal drinking. Ny daughter is a
varsity athlete, band member, and student council officer who has recently
returned from both our Illinois State Swim Meet and from a two day IDEA
conference on drug and alcohol awareness. She is wondering if a university
which may allow her to be negatively affected by someone else's drinking is
the school for her.
As a parent at Downers Grove South, I'm not sure if I can continue to sing
the praises of Iowa City when asked by parents of soon to be college
students what I think of the University of Iowa. This will also be the case
in the district in which I teach which includes York High School. In good
conscience, I will have to mention the illegal drinking that is allowed to
go on in the town.
I encourage the Iowa City City Council to move quickly to enforce legal age
requirements for admittance to any establishment where drinking is allowed.
As a parent I demand that laws regarding the legal drinking age are
enforced in the town where my underage student is attending school.
Sincerely,
Karen Scoville
1400 62nd Street
Downers Grove, Illinois 60516
Marian Karr
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Kathy Okerberg [KOkerberg@vil.lisle.il.us]
Monday, December 06, 1999 7:57 AM
'council@iowa-city.org'
'phillip-jones@uiowa.edu'
Underage Drinking
This past weekend, I received a copy of the University of Iowa's Parent
Times, Vol. 43, No. 2. I found the article on the front page, "Campus
Drinking Culture Can Harm Any Student" to be very interesting, informative,
and unfortunately, very discouraging.
I am a parent of an 18 year old freshman student. The facts presented in
the article about 18-20 year olds being admitted to bars is entirely true.
My son has told me on numerous occasions that he has no problem getting into
the bars because the owners stamp their hands with a different colored stamp
which is supposed to indicate that they are underage. However, once inside,
he has told me that there is no problem getting any type of drink at all.
Why does the City of Iowa allow this to happen? Why do you let bars admit
underage persons to bars and once inside, does anyone (police) ever check to
see if underage kids are drinking? There is a quote in the article which
says that the bars say the underage students are served only soft drinks.
Now, how stupid are we? Does the City of Iowa enforce any codes with
respect to underage drinking? I was extremely frustrated and amazed when I
read that there are 98 bars within a 1-mile radius of downtown. Who in
their right mind would issue 98 liquor licenses to bars in the downtown
area? This only promotes more drinking the more bars, the harder it is to
enforce any regulations.
Something needs to be done about this. My son says that it is not unusual
to go to the bars every Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, and that he sees
"everyone you can imagine" in the bars. Of course, as a parent I have
repeatedly asked my son not to drink, but as you know, once the kids go off
to college, there is very little we as parents can do to control their
behavior when we are 3 hours away from them. However, if the regulations
were enforced the way they were supposed to be (not admitting 18 to 20 year
olds to bars AT ALL), this would surely help the drinking situation.
Please do your part to enforce the regulations about underage drinking. I
work for the Village Manager of a municipality in the western suburbs of
Chicago. We have one college in town and another in a neighboring town.
There is no way that we would ever allow as many liquor licenses and bars to
operate here, and we are always conducting undercover operations to
discourage underage drinking.
I would appreciate a response to this message, and I would like to know what
you will be doing in the future to control the "out of control" situation of
students being admitted to the bars and the underage drinking that goes
along with it. The first step should be NOT TO ADMIT 18-20 YEARS TO BARS AT
ALL!
Kathy Okerberg
kokerberg@vil.lisle.il.us
Marian Karr
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Robed or Connie Boyer [boyer@kdsi.net]
Sunday, December 05, 1999 12:13 PM
council@iowa-city.org
I am urging the City Council to create an ordinance that would not allow 18-20 year olds in the bars in Iowa City. The bar
owners say they do not serve under-age drinkers but they are not stupid. They know very well, the older students are
getting alcoholic drinks for the younger students and this is income in their pocket they do not want to lose. I have two
daughters at the University and I know this to be true.
Sincerely,
Connie Boyer
202 E. Burlington
Fairfield, Iowa 52556
December 2, 1999
Emest Lehman
410 East Washington Street
Iowa City, IA 52240
911 Iowa Avenue
Iowa City, IA 52240
t DEC 0 2 1999
CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE
re: Hickory Hill Park
Dear Mayor Lehman:
During our fifteen years in Iowa City we have often boasted to visitors that there is an
expansive natural preserve right within our town, a place only minutes away where one
can walk, run, cross-country ski, sled and entirely forget that one is in a city. But not
any more. Now, each time we walk the hill path that rises ~rom the Bloomington Street
entrance, or through the long ravine that separates it ~om the upper park meadow, we are
appalled to see a landscape scarred by bulldozed, treeless acres and looming gravestones.
We are simply unable to comprehend what possessed our elected representatives to throw
away this priceless heritage ofparkland that contributes so much to the quality of life in
our community, for the sake of. .... burial sites7
Hickory Hill Park should be expanded, not reduced. Iowa City is at risk of becoming
another strip-mall, suburban-sprawl interstate town. With the building of "Captain Irish
Parkway" the way has been cleared for additional "development" to the east and
northeast, and the woodlands and fields that line the Park and make it seem so much
larger and more open than it really is will no doubt soon be sold, subdivided, bulldozed,
and built. A City Council with some vision would realize the folly of destroying the very
features that make this City a desirable place to live and work, and would act to preserve
and expand a greenbelt for recreational use. Boulder Colorado did this more than a
decade ago, in a successful effort to avoid becoming another bedroom suburb of Denver.
Such preservation is one of the best ways to invest in the future value of this community.
Please walk through Hickory Hill Park and see the irreparable damage that has already
been done through your actions. Hundreds of your neighbors now see it daily, and I
know of no one who likes it. Please act to stop further loss of Park acreage, and if
possible work to acquire forest and field acreage to the east and north of the present Park
limits. Show us your concem for the protection of the resources that we regularly enjoy
and that make us proud to be Iowa Citians.
Sincerely,
Philip Lutgendorf
Susan Lutgendorf
Mira Lutgendorf
Claire Lutgendorf
December 6, t 999
Dear City'Council Members,
I just retuxned from a walk at Hickory Hill Park and was disturbed
to see, marked off with yellow caution tape, an estimate of the
possible cemetery expansion. I urge you to delay a vote on this
issue until more public discussion is allowed. Please visit the park
and visualize what the added expansion would mean to. its
integrity~ The bulldozing of all the trees, even those supposedly
marked for-saving, in the four acres developed so far is very sad. I
feel that the price tag on the development of these four acres of
over $400~000 is grossly negligent tree of city. funds.
Please delay the vote on the park.
Thank yOu,
Sue~~sX~~/~''*'
1119 E./Court St.
Iowa City,
351475-5
December 5, 1999
Dear Iowa City Councilors and Mayor Lehman:
I have been following the developments regarding the
expansion of Oakland Cemetery into Hickory Hill Park. The four
acres of land that were scraped off and graded to become future
grave sites contained innumerable wild flowers and trees. All are
now at some dump site. I feel that this is a dreadful situation and
want the Council to consider dedicating all the remaining acres of the
disputed land to the Park. It would be an unconscionable tragedy
and a betrayal of the natural heritage of Iowa City to destroy the
hickory grove and the understory of flowering plants that has
regenerated there now to provide space for graves. I have spent
countless hours in the park and have accumulated a plant species list
numbering in the hundreds. Some of the plants found in that
particular area of the park are very rare, and probably found
nowhere else in a natural setting within the boundaries of Iowa City.
These include Showy Orchis, Green Dragon, and Ladies Tresses. Do
you know what these are? Do you care?
I believe that the entire area, all the acres currently dedicated
to the park and the acres in dispute, and the surrounding wooded
areas that are in private ownership at the present time, should be
dedicated as park land. There seems to be a relentless drive to
develop and scrape off every living plant community in the Iowa
City/Coraiville area, and indeed in most of Johnson County, with little
regard for the natural beauty and diversity of these areas. These
particular acres have been regrowing, and evolving once again into a
hickory/oak community, much as the area was before human
interference. Much of this acreage has remained untoowed,
unplowed, and untouched by modern chemicals for decades. Hence,
some of the original plants can still be found there and are
recolonizing in the leaf litter. Where else in Iowa City can one see
such rich diversity of plant life? Most of the parks in town are
sports oriented, mowed by heavy machinery, sprayed with
chemicals, blacktopped for parking, rollerblading and bicycling, or
are flooded on a regular basis. There is no park in Iowa City that has
been regrowing and reverting to a natural state such as Hickory Hill
Park and the disputed acres. It has the potential to become a living,
dynamic ecosystem, and in the future, as the surrounding area is
developed, paved and reshaped for human desires, it may become an
oasis of natural beauty and source of renewal for the human spirit.
Its value as an educational setting, a natural laboratory for students
of all ages, could be unequaled, with the limits of Iowa City.
DEC 0 7 1999
CITY MANAG 'S OFFICE
The economics of this project are questionable. Are the
taxpayers of Iowa City willing to spend in excess of $700,000 to
prepare the seven acres in dispute? Does the sale of the grave sites
equal the amount spent to prepare the land? Wouldn't it be cheaper
to purchase seven acres of plowed, level farmland as a cemetery
site? The cornfields to the east of the park will be for sale in the
near future. How about purchasing that land for a cemetery, a sort
of Oakland Cemetery F. ast? It would require much less grading and
demolition than the seven wooded and sloped acres in the park. It
would provide a buffer of quiet land between the park and the
future housing/commercial developments that are inevitable in that
area. A more significant question is why does Iowa City need to be
providing grave sites for any one? Is this part of the services that a
city is required to provide to its citizens? Do people move to the
Iowa City area because there is a cemetery to be buried in when
they are dead, or do they come here because of the variety of
educational, recreational and cultural activities that are available for
the living?
As a final comment I quote from the new book published by
Iowa Citian, Marybeth Slonneger, "Small But Ours". This book
presents verbal accounts by some of Iowa City's earliest liuropean
immigrants as they settled into the Goosetown neighborhood. She
quotes Paul Dvorsky, a child in the early part of 1900, "After a warm
rain we gathered mushrooms. We gathered wildflowers, such as
mayflowers, dog-toothed violets, bluebells, May apples, and
occasionally, a lady-slipper. In the fall we would gather hickory
nuts, hazelnuts, walnuts and butternuts". She goes on to write, "How
one would so like to come across an occasional lady-slipper growing
in Iowa City today, or the shooting stars found along the railroad
tracks by Mr. Zetek, and where are the mayflowers growing?" In
answer, all but the lady-slipper are growing in the seven acres of
woodland that you, the city council, want to destroy forever. You
should be ashamed of yourselves if you support this kind of
destruction. Your descendants will not thank you if you allow this
beautiful land, the real heritage of Iowa City, to be destroyed
forever.
Sincerely,
Hindes
728 Fairchild Street
Iowa City, Iowa 52245
Marian Karr
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campion@act.org
Monday, December 06, 1999 9:34 AM
council@iowa-city.org
Hickory Hill Park
December 6, 1999
Dear Members of the Council:
A hundred years ago Daniel Burnham told Chicago "make no little
plans." Fortunately, the city heeded his advice and set aside
generous stretches of land for parks. Growing up in Chicago, I
enjoyed the parks and made lifelong friends there playing baseball and
football and going sledding and iceskating in them. Parks--big
ones--are essential to a city.
As you know, Iowa City has one of the best city parks in North
America. Hickory Hill Park has wide expanses of fields where games
are played, picnic areas for family gatherings, and, maybe best of
all, lots of wooded trails for walking and for enjoying nature out of
sight of town. It's a place to have fun, and it's a haven for the
mind and spirit.
It's also one of the big reasons I decided to stay in Iowa City,
having moved here to attend the university in 1978. In the 21 years
since then, I've worked here, bought a house, paid taxes, and
patronized local businesses, all thanks to the quality of life that
Hickory Hill Park does much to sustain.
Recently a big chunk of the park has been bulldozed to expand a
cemetery. You must decide whether further such incursions on
a park for the living will be permitted.
Cities all over the country are reclaiming and expanding their
parks, not constricting them. Large majorities of city councils,
residents, and developers alike recognize that green space must be
protected because their city's life depends on it.
I hope you will "make no little plans" that cut further into Hickory
Hill Park.
Sincerely,
Dan Campion
1700 East Rochester Avenue
Iowa City, Iowa 52245
Home phone: 337-2067
Marian Karr
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Judeminer@aol .com
Monday, December 06, 1999 10:11 AM
council@iowa-city.org
Hickory Hills Park ......
Greetings. I am writing to encourage you to keep Hickory Hills Park as a
park, and NOT develop it as a cemetary. We took a walk there last
night ..... in awe that there is still such a natural place available, within
the city limits. Thanks for reading my opinion. Judy Miner
713 S. 7th Ave.
Iowa City, IA 52240
319-339-0280