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2 Dr. Brown presented the City of ONE Campaign proclamation. Dr. Brown presented a proclamation recognizing the Charlottesville High School Scholastic Bowl Pop Quiz Team for their successful season. PUBLIC Ms. Rebecca Braddock, 907 Anderson Street, asked Council for answers about the elimination of the Route 6 bus route in her neighborhood. She said she has to walk to Preston Avenue to catch a bus. She expressed concern that buses go to Southwood in Albemarle County but not to her neighborhood. Ms. Mary Jean Rossi, Keswick, a City Market consumer, said the Market is a wonderful asset and she wants to keep its local flavor and keep it open to people to participate. She said she favors the previous regulations. Mr. Richard Bean, a City Market vendor from Nelson County, asked why the rules are being changed for the Market. He said they include confusing, redundant and incorrect regulations. He said the main problem for the Market is resellers and the regulations do not address that. Ms. Colette Hall, 101 Robertson Lane, said that the Council passed the biggest City budget in history when the population is not significantly growing and the School population is decreasing. Mr. Paul Long, 1410 Grady Avenue, 1410 Grady Avenue, said there are inadequate services for people who suffer from drug addition. He said a detox facility is needed. He said Region Ten Community Services Board is not willing to go to the Jail for non-violent drug offenders. He said these people should not be incarcerated. Ms. Ann Carter, 715 Orangedale Avenue, expressed concern that her name appears in the application for the conservation historic district for Fifeville without her permission. She said it implies that she is in favor of the application when she is not. Ms. Carla Manno, 324 7 ½ Street, S.W., said it is not too late for Council to turn back the application for historic designation. She said it includes language linking it to local designation. She said that $35,000 in local and state funding went to the project in Fifeville that the residents did not want. She asked Council to openly vote to say state and federal historic designation is not related to local designation. Mr. Aaron Wunsch, 338 Monticello Road, representing Preservation Piedmont, urged Council to withdraw the nomination for the historic designation for Fifeville. He said the nomination needs work and does not reflect the history of the neighborhood. He said it needs to better reflect the social history. He said the current application could doom support for a local historic designation and slow the local design process. He offered Preservation Piedmont’s help in proposing methodology. st Mr. Stratton Salidas, 618 South 1 Street, noted that a map printed by the Chamber of Commerce does not show McIntire Park ending at the stream. He said a previous traffic study showed the Parkway would increase traffic in the City. He said it is not clear where the interchange ends and the Parkway begins. He urged Council to write a letter saying it has no intention of building the Parkway without the interchange. He said an environmental review should be conducted. He said preferably Council will decide to kill the project all together. th Ms. Holly Edwards, 917 6 Street, S.E., said she is hearing residents’ concern about traffic, depletion of natural resources and density of housing. She said she is also hearing anger, sadness, frustration, fear and hope expressed by citizens. She said Council can be good stewards of our natural resources and protect all our neighborhoods.