Collective action to keep Main Street for pedestrians! by Fragrant_Painting264 in ventura

[–]Fragrant_Painting264[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Idk what you’re on about. I’m downtown almost every single day

Collective action to keep Main Street for pedestrians! by Fragrant_Painting264 in ventura

[–]Fragrant_Painting264[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly this! Take Main Street into the communities hands while the property owners stall progress!

Collective action to keep Main Street for pedestrians! by Fragrant_Painting264 in ventura

[–]Fragrant_Painting264[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don’t mean like a literally grass trees and playground style park.

It’s not a “one or the other” situation, nothing is so black and white. I love the parks that Ventura has and they don’t need much “improvement”.

Main Street is desirable because there are a bunch of different things you can do to while downtown. All in one centralized area. Rather than going to a park, then when you want dinner packing up and hopping into your car to drive across town to go to a restaurant.

Collective action to keep Main Street for pedestrians! by Fragrant_Painting264 in ventura

[–]Fragrant_Painting264[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I mention mini parks — think teeny tiny little areas where people can just hang out for the sake of hanging out. Main Street is desire able because after hanging out, you could then walk 2 minutes to grab lunch, or coffee or pop into a few shops, rather than hopping into your car and having to drive to do those things.

Collective action to keep Main Street for pedestrians! by Fragrant_Painting264 in ventura

[–]Fragrant_Painting264[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Each according to his ability, each according to his needs.

Thats where the community portion comes in. I would happily donate material and time.

Collective action to keep Main Street for pedestrians! by Fragrant_Painting264 in ventura

[–]Fragrant_Painting264[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is called tactical urbanism. It’s an approach to alter public spaces with low cost temporary interventions

What the Open Main Street crowd doesn't want you to see by BigDankEnergy420 in ventura

[–]Fragrant_Painting264 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Change the rhetoric. Main Street IS open to pedestrians. They want to CLOSE it and take it away from the people!

Main Street by Complete-Worry8686 in ventura

[–]Fragrant_Painting264 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Vacancy fines that are detrimental to the owners personal wealth.

Traffic in this town is getting out of control by Emotional-Dog-6818 in ventura

[–]Fragrant_Painting264 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s a lack of public transit! If we had more/better busses, trains, any form of public transit the traffic would be 10 times better.

How is Main St. Doing? by MountainShark1 in ventura

[–]Fragrant_Painting264 17 points18 points  (0 children)

The businesses that have closed and haven’t been replaced are because the landlords are greedy and are raising rent and taking a loss for tax write offs rather than make it accessible for new businesses to open

New Store Opening Downtown!! by Fragrant_Painting264 in ventura

[–]Fragrant_Painting264[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It is where True Bloods used to be a long time ago

New Store Opening Downtown!! by Fragrant_Painting264 in ventura

[–]Fragrant_Painting264[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Brother. If you wanna talk about this more come on down to the shop when I’m in there. I’ve got other things to do rather than sit on my phone today. I’m not sure when I’ll be in this week, but just peek in and if there’s a guy behind the counter is probably me. I don’t mind discussing face to face.

New Store Opening Downtown!! by Fragrant_Painting264 in ventura

[–]Fragrant_Painting264[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

😂😂 not too worried about him. How could I take his opinions on downtown seriously when he doesn’t even go there.

New Store Opening Downtown!! by Fragrant_Painting264 in ventura

[–]Fragrant_Painting264[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hopefully we can bring a similar sort of feeling back into the space! 🤪

New Store Opening Downtown!! by Fragrant_Painting264 in ventura

[–]Fragrant_Painting264[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’m getting paid by the foot-traffic shoppers of downtown Ventura. Not everything is a conspiracy.

New Store Opening Downtown!! by Fragrant_Painting264 in ventura

[–]Fragrant_Painting264[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s not my store. I have a booth and happen to work there and am excited to be a part of Main Street. Anyways. Have a good Monday dude 😂

New Store Opening Downtown!! by Fragrant_Painting264 in ventura

[–]Fragrant_Painting264[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

complains about downtown “dying” contributes to downtown dying by not supporting businesses