The secret shortcut. Traffic engineers hate him!

The arguably bigger news is that they also got the parking lot across the street.

Regardless of who is in the wrong here and how wrong they are, this is the potential downside of being extremely online like Patrick Nett has been for the last 3 years.

Typically I'm pretty anti-NIMBY, but development for the sake of development is also un-wise.

Outside of the tax revenue and a handful of jobs, what benefits will a coffee shop in this specific location provide that will offset the large number of negatives that it will bring?

Anglers Inn (the property where the sidewalk is) was required to build a new sidewalk during their renovation.

Since there wasn't already a sidewalk on the adjacent property, there was no way to require them to connect it to anything.

Seems stupid, is stupid, but really no way to account for it.

Springfield area has one of the highest rates of property crimes in the nation. Lots of those involve people's vehicles.

My insurance has gone up the last 3 years.

Republic one will probably be open by the end of the year.

Springfield ones will probably be late spring/early summer.

They shut down sectors when they reach capacity to avoid overloading the network with more clients than their current satellites can handle. When someone stops their service or they add more capacity, wait-listed people get a chance to join.

If money is not a concern, you could explore something like Total High Speed Internet Solutions or Wisper Internet. They are fixed wireless internet providers.