We continue to see wildflowers as we walk the dog and go for hikes.
There is some nice wooded land west of us, meaning it is closer to the NAU campus than we are. A developer is trying to get changes to the zoning regs from suburban commercial on one lot and townhomes/condos on the other lot to allow apartments on both. We submitted comments opposing it, as one of the issues is that the city fails to require enough off street parking. For example, Rio Homes behind us is 153 townhomes, but many are rented to students. Even though they have added more parking spaces twice, residents have to park several hundred yards away outside of the development and only cars with parking permits are allowed to park in the development - there are no parking spaces for visitors. So now Rio Homes is again adding more parking spaces. It still will not be enough. The developer for the proposed project will not have enough spaces either, as the number parking spaces is based upon the number of proposed apartments, rather than the number of bedrooms - since each bedroom will have at least one student, most of whom will have cars, the number of parking spaces just for residents needs to equal or exceed the number of bedrooms, plus you need spaces for guests of the residents.
Here is some of the work on Rio Homes being done to create more parking spaces - the second photo shows how they marked areas with white lines to remove the strip between the sidewalk and the street, and replace that strip with parking spaces in the third photo.
We continue to work on do it yourself projects at home. This one is a storage space for the window for our new combination screen/storm door - it is 30 inches wide and 74 inches tall - the frame is one and one half inches thick and will be behind some of the shelves we have in the garage.
Patty has started painting - first some samples, then a quart of the almond latte for the downstairs half bathroom.
As we have since March, we continue to stay home, wear masks and use hand sanitizer when we go to stores, and avoid restaurants and any place where people congregate. We talk with neighbors from a distance, and sometimes with masks when they come too close. Numbers of positive Covid-19 tests, hospitalizations, ICU use and ventilator usage all continue to hit new records for Arizona. Below is the latest from the local Phoenix news outlet. We are going to be in this mess for a long time.
There is some nice wooded land west of us, meaning it is closer to the NAU campus than we are. A developer is trying to get changes to the zoning regs from suburban commercial on one lot and townhomes/condos on the other lot to allow apartments on both. We submitted comments opposing it, as one of the issues is that the city fails to require enough off street parking. For example, Rio Homes behind us is 153 townhomes, but many are rented to students. Even though they have added more parking spaces twice, residents have to park several hundred yards away outside of the development and only cars with parking permits are allowed to park in the development - there are no parking spaces for visitors. So now Rio Homes is again adding more parking spaces. It still will not be enough. The developer for the proposed project will not have enough spaces either, as the number parking spaces is based upon the number of proposed apartments, rather than the number of bedrooms - since each bedroom will have at least one student, most of whom will have cars, the number of parking spaces just for residents needs to equal or exceed the number of bedrooms, plus you need spaces for guests of the residents.
Here is some of the work on Rio Homes being done to create more parking spaces - the second photo shows how they marked areas with white lines to remove the strip between the sidewalk and the street, and replace that strip with parking spaces in the third photo.
We continue to work on do it yourself projects at home. This one is a storage space for the window for our new combination screen/storm door - it is 30 inches wide and 74 inches tall - the frame is one and one half inches thick and will be behind some of the shelves we have in the garage.
Patty has started painting - first some samples, then a quart of the almond latte for the downstairs half bathroom.
As we have since March, we continue to stay home, wear masks and use hand sanitizer when we go to stores, and avoid restaurants and any place where people congregate. We talk with neighbors from a distance, and sometimes with masks when they come too close. Numbers of positive Covid-19 tests, hospitalizations, ICU use and ventilator usage all continue to hit new records for Arizona. Below is the latest from the local Phoenix news outlet. We are going to be in this mess for a long time.
Arizona COVID-19 cases surpass 100,000 as weeks long spikes continue
Arizona's total case count passed 50,000 on June 21 and doubled to more than 100,000 in two weeks.
Here are some of the major case milestones by date reported:
- First case: Jan. 26
- 100 cases: March 21
- 1,000 cases: March 30
- 10,000 cases: May 8
- 25,000 cases: June 6
- 50,000 cases: June 21
- 75,000 cases: June 30
- 100,000 cases: July 6
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