Public Hearing on Day Care Center on Virginia

More on the day care center that I posted about on March 16th:

PUBLIC NOTICE-A public hearing will be held by the Board of Adjustment at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 4, 2005, in Room 208 City Hall to consider the following:

APPEAL #8441-Appeal filed by Montrice Lewis, from the determination of the Board of Public Service in the denial of an occupancy permit authorizing the Appellant to operate a day care center for 20 children at 4657 Virginia. Ward 25 #AO328491-05 Zone: “F” Neighborhood Commercial District.

The prior post linked above has a “before” picture. Below is the current state of the building:

Photo taken on April 20th. Awning and storefront sprayed green with substantial over spray on brick and sidewalk.

Close up shot of over spray on brick facade. Why would anyone do this to the building?

Help Plan Centennial Greenway

From Maggie Edelmann at Trailnet:

While I am mostly an on-road cyclist I think the idea of connecting parts of the region through a linear park system is a good idea. This makes good use of existing rights-of-way, provides local parks and a legitimate means of getting from point A to point B through a park. Tax dollars at work doing good things.

– Steve

Changes to Urban Review – St. Louis

Categories

This weekend tech guru Brian Marston updated my blog to show the categories I’ve been using for entries. This will hopefully make it easier to review archives. Please note that some entries are in multiple categories.

If you have suggestions on new categories for me to use please let me know in the comments below.

Local Sponsorship

We are talking with some locally owned businesses about sponsoring my site and others in the St. Louis Syndicate. The exact form the ads will take on (banner, side display ad, etc…) has yet to be determined. We are still working on pricing as well. Part of the answer is in the level of interest from local business owners. If you have interested please send me an email. In the meantime click on a Google ad in the right column to help out.

News Aggregators

This isn’t a change so much as a technological note. With the substantial amount of information available on the internet it is increasingly difficult to check all the various web sites for interesting information. With RSS & Atom feeds you don’t need to go to the news – the news will come to you. Including Urban Review – St. Louis!

You don’t need to worry about the types of feeds and how it all works. All you need to know are some choices of applications. For recommended news aggregators click here. This list includes recommendations for Mac, Windows and other operating systems.

If you are lucky enough to use a Macintosh computer from Apple you may want to consider upgrading your operating system to the new OSX 10.4 “Tiger” which was released on Friday. It has integrated RSS support in the Safari browser. I haven’t upgraded yet but I plan to do so in the next few weeks.

Notifications

If you are not ready to make the jump to RSS feeds but want to know when I’ve added a new entry to Urban Review – St. Louis you can sign-up to receive “notifications” via email. Each time I make a new entry you will receive a brief email with a link to the new entry. Your privacy is protected – the list is never used for any other purpose. To begin receiving notifications send an email to this address.

Not Getting Enough of My Views?

Ever wonder about my thoughts on issues such as music, TV, advertising and other pop culture issues? Oh, you haven’t huh? Well, fine. Oh wait, I see a couple of hands in the back of the room. For the few of you that are curious I’ve got a new blog devoted to all those subjects not covered here on Urban Review – St. Louis. The new blog is called, Steve’s Thoughts. Check it out. And yes, RSS feeds are available for the new site as well.

And don’t forget, I have a site on St. Louis’ 25th Aldermanic Ward. The look has just been updated and I will be posting new information this week on local meetings, happenings and neighborhood issues. Not for everyone but if you live in or around the area you may find it interesting. RSS feeds and notifications are also available for this site.

Podcasts

I am working on the next installment of my podcasting. It takes quite a bit of time to put together just a short podcast. I’ve started recording short segments as they come to me so as I get enough I will be putting them together for broadcast.

Links and More LInks

I have some great links in the right hand column so be sure to check those out. I am also working on adding a substantial number of links. These will be in clearly marked categories to make it easy to find what you are looking for.

Thanks for reading Urban Review – St. Louis!

– Steve