The “Water Cooler” is a feature on Claycord.com where we ask you a question or provide a topic, and you talk about it. The “Water Cooler” will be up Monday-Friday at noon.
Today’s question:
QUESTION: Earlier today, we posted a story about the picket fence property on Galindo and Clayton Rd/Concord Blvd in Concord. What do you think should be done to the property?
Talk about it….
High density buildings.
Whatever the people want, it’s all about what’s best for the members of the City Council.
The city will make it a Homeless KOA Campground.
Olive Garden? 🙂 Indoor target and archery range?
High rise jail
The Concord City Council will only allow one thing to be done with this property, and that is high-density housing with a significant portion of affordable housing units in the project. It doesn’t matter what the citizens of Concord want, because most Concord citizens don’t want more high-density housing in Concord.
Rollerworld
Erect a 10 story statue of Mark deSaulnier, like the Colossus of Rhodes, on that property. Illuminate it at night to awe the commuters driving on Clayton Road as they pass by.
Give homeless, their own gated community,
https://tinyurl.com/5a3dnd6t
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OR,
Another site for gated community is bounded by Mt Diablo Street,
Mesa Street and Cowell Road. That bart parking lot is ALWAYS
EMPTY. It’s paved surrounded by a steel fence. Has two wide
access gates. Cost would be minimal for electricity, centralized
bathrooms and trailer for showers. Area is directly behind Concord PDs
Taj Mahal. Out of sight from Galindo Street traffic.
https://tinyurl.com/yc5wsusz
Olive Garden? 😝
(‘Just had to add that one!)
Cannabis club
build a temple, fill the priests’ hallowed halls with great computers, so their walls can hold all the gifts of life. We can call it Gavin.
2112!
Mary Lou Nelson?
Protected Corn Snake habitat.
A shooting range. Some of the shootings around here the shopterscare terrible shots and need more time on a range.
Just make it a big parking lot with traffic lights for safe vehicle exits and pedestrian crossings.
Building on that, we could make it a WayMo parking lot, so we could bemusedly watch one driverless car honk at another driverless car, all honking at each other all night.
A jumbo parking lot for easy parking downtown and for the people living around there
Hey! now that’s a good idea!
Go get them Spirit Poles out of storage and let’s impale some fools.
Atticus Thraxx,
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Weren’t the “Spirit Poles” sold off as scrap metal?
Do I detect a bit of sarcasim here? Did we not just have an election where some of the same City politicians were reelected? Change doesn’t come from the elected. It comes from the voters. The elected have no reason to foster change (it’s a threat to the continued norm).
Bonehead,
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Concord voters ousted three sitting councilmembers in three of the last four Concord City Council elections, Councilmember Ron Leone in 2018, Councilmember Tim McGallian in 2022, and Mayor Edi Birsan in 2024. Prior to the 2018 election, Concord voters last voted out sitting councilmembers in 1993, where Lloyd Mashore, Byron Campbell, and Nancy Gore were all voted out of office.
Again? Didn’t they put this up for bid a few years ago? How many times has Concord tried to off-load this lot? Tell us again why Concord owns this lot. Who got what favors? Who cut $$ deals to move their car dealership(s) ? 😉
This lot (and our airport and bridge) sits squarely on top of the way over-due Concord Fault and Liquefaction Zone. Who in their right mind would Pack & Stack living souls and high-rises along that line?
https://maps.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/informationwarehouse/eqzapp/#data_s=id%3AdataSource_4-191d8e4b825-layer-21%3A1849
Make it a solar park, generate power with power banks. Reduce cost to community.
Actually…. howsabout if I sneak out there in the wee hours & bury some ancient injun bones and artifacts then have someone “accidentally” discover them?
Hand the land over to the local tribe and they can declare it “Sacred” and keep everyone off of it or maybe build a Casino?
How about a picket fence sales lot?