Comments by leroy
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Posted on December 7 at 10:41 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Well, one thing, if they would put the gym where the national guard armory is now, then the Alumni would not have to drive to the stadium or gym. They could just stagger over to the gym and stadium after consuming a few mint juleps at the alumni bar. Just think of the savings on DUI fines, alone. Maybe the band could serenade them to the tune of that Rolling Stones classic, Hokey Tonka Women or the latest Rap classical music MTV special. The new gym should have a large enough space to hold all of the inebriated alumni and the Sound of the South Marching Band together. Let the good times roll...Go Trojans!!!
Posted on December 7 at 12:13 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Why don't they get the national guard to donate the armory building that is across the street from the stadium and have all of the sports faculties next to each other? This would probably save some money and it would be very convent for the outstanding, nationally ranked athletic program that Troy University has developed. Also, the armory location would be very convenient to the proposed Alumni building that is planed at the end of Highland Avenue.
Posted on October 14 at 3:11 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Yes there are still about three single families on the 100 block of Highland. The land owners will probably have to stop renting to college students. I wonder how much the department of housing and development is paying to subsidize rental houses now days?
Why rent to college students when you can rent to single family government housed people. Now college students X,Y,Z,and K are paying them $100 each per month. After the zoning inspector shows up and the students are evicted, the property owners will probably turn to HUD to pay $300 and the single family $100.
No more Hoot Nannies will be played on that block.
Posted on October 14 at 2:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I thought that the Bank building was going to be a welcome center, not an Alumni center. I wonder where the new Baketball building is going to Go?
Posted on October 14 at 1:15 a.m. (Suggest removal)
In regards to the parking problem at Troy University.
Highland Avenue is a very wide street and people can park on both sides of it. Highland Avenue is almost as close to the center of the University as any of the parking lots over there. When the Alumni Building at the end of highland is built, I think that Highland Avenue will be come more recognizable as additional parking for University students. The Married Students who live in the Married student apartments at the end of Franklin, find Highland Avenue to be only a short walk for their daily journey to classes. There is a steady stream of Married Students walking back and forth, every day.
Highland Avenue is getting to be a major thoroughfare; however. It does not matter how late at night or early in the morning, Highland Avenue is becoming one of the most traveled roads in Troy. Cars zip by without regard to seed limits. One wonders just where these people are in such a big hurry to get where they are going. It is a short cut as evidenced by the number of emergency vehicles that often goes by. I suspect that they are trying to avoid the traffic lights on George Wallace. Also, the Hospital is just a skip and a jump down Franklin. Then there is the all important daily trip to Wal Mart that must be made by Western side of town Trojans.
But, a side walk would be a nice addition for the pedestrians dodging the speedy Gonzales types.
Posted on October 12 at 8:39 p.m. (Suggest removal)
As an Alumni of Troy State and a long time resident of Troy, I think that a real nice Alumni Hall should be the next big project. I am ready to host the University of Alabama for the National Champion Ship.
Posted on October 12 at 4:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)
there they grow again,
Posted on October 5 at 3:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)
It does not mater what you say or what I say about the issue of rezoning of Highland Avenue. What matters is what the City Council of Troy’s vote is, on this issue. But before any one who lives on Glenwood, Homewood , Sussex, Hillcrest , Murphee or any street that is now zoned R1, rushes to pick up the phone to call their city councilman to persuade them to vote against the comprehensive Community Master Plan, stand up and walk out your front door. Look to your left and to your right and see how many College Students are living on YOUR street. Guess what? These student occupied houses may soon be vacant houses. Because, the college students may soon be evicted. “If the Glove Fits, You must evict”, to paraphrase Jonny Cockaran. Just about everybody that I have talked to from theses neighborhoods have a horror story to tell about college students moving in on THEIR street.
Do you think that the owners of the New Apartment complexes on Academy Street or Elm Street actually care how many vacant houses are on the R1 Streets around Troy? If you go to almost any town or city in the USA today you will see row after row of streets with for sale signs in the front yard. The Banking system in America is on the verge of collapse, Credit for mortgages is on the verge of becoming non existence because Banks have lost so much money on real estate. Why is this? ....Governmental regulation!!!! Fanie Mae and Fredie Mac are just the tip of the ice berg. Now The City of Troy is about to begin enforcing it’s zoning Regulation? I think not, if they want the property values to remain high and keep the tax money rolling in.
Posted on October 4 at 10:59 p.m. (Suggest removal)
“There is no shortage of student housing”
But we are talking here of evicting all the multi student occupants that are currently in R1 zoned neighborhoods. If you take only those who are in non compliance, in the area between Highland and Highway 231 and say, for example, that there are five students in each house. Then you make each student rent his own apartment or house, that will produce a situation where many a poor college student will be sleeping on park benches because all of the available housing will be occupied by his or hers former roommates.
I don’t think that there are enough illegal construction workers in Troy to build that many new housing units.
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Posted on December 8 at 5:44 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The Gym will have plenty of parking if they locate it at the armory and make one or two holes and fairways a parking lot. This will be additional parking for the students as they go about their regular student daily activities. They could then expand the golf course further down around the old children’s home pond that is now on hole number three. They could have a five par hole that runs besides the tennis courts, and they would still have a nine hole golf course. The parking area on the golf course would have the needed additional parking for football games, band camps, concerts and those lovely cheerleading camps. Placing the gym there would also relieve the traffic congestion that is really going to be a serious issue in the future.
One problem that I see on the horizon is on George Wallace at the new Easy Street Apartments where they are opening a road to the apartments. This is the new road between Second Ave, and Ray Ave.
Cars coming from 231 highway and coming down the hill and around the curve are going to play bumper cars with cars coming out from the new apartment complex. Now, I know that most young freshmen boys and girls have had driver education classes in high school, but an inexperienced driver could get into difficulty trying to turn left, to go to their first basket weaving class, early, on an ice covered windshield and foggy morning. That is going to be a dangerous intersection. What an appropriate name for that new street.... Easy...Easy to lose your life coming out to go to class.
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