The Data Port checked in with City Council offices to see what the levels of e-mail traffic were prior to last night’s vote.

A spokesman at Regina Romero’s Ward One office estimated that the office received approximately 140 e-mails in support of the Rialto Theater.

Rodney Glassman’s Ward 2 office: 100, mostly Rialto related.

Shirley Scott, Ward 4: ”Mayor and Council comment line was bombarded” according to a spokesperson. In addition the office estimates that they received about 50, concerned about the future of the Rialto Theater.

Steve Leal’s Ward 5 spokesman, Barbara Jordan, estimated that they received about 300 e-mails to “save the Rialto.”

Nina Trasoff, Ward 6 : The Data Port spoke with Trasoff, who estimated that e-mail traffic related to last night’s vote was between 150 and 200. Trasoff sent The Data Port a copy of the e-mail she sent to people who had e-mailed her. The Data Port will discuss that in a later post.

Karen Uhlich’s Ward Three office will be getting back to us.

It’s apparent that most of the concern about the Stiteler plan centered around the Rialto Theater. There are other issues, of course, mostly about the overall financial wisdom of the deal. Those are the subject of a future post.

3 Comments for this entry

Mike B
June 17th, 2009 on 3:29 pm
And some of those emails and twitters were reminding the elected that the Rialto cannot activate its Liquor License with a school at 210 E. Broadway. City code does not permit the sale of liquor with a school in close proximity. Small detail.

Reply
- dataport
  June 18th, 2009 on 9:11 am
  Mike…
  There’s a roaring good bar just across the street at the Hotel Congress. I don’t think a bar at the Rialto is a problem.
  
  Reply
Donovan Durband
June 19th, 2009 on 2:32 am
The Rialto already has a liquor license and sells beer at concerts. But . . . the presence of the school at the SE corner of 5th and Broadway does hinder Stiteler from opening up a new bar in the old Trailway Bus/Dillinger Bar building at the NE corner of 5th and Broadway.

We tried to get that state law changed a few years ago to exempt downtown entertainment districts from the 300-foot rule (liquor licenses to schools and churches), but Napolitano would not support it. All of the downtown charter schools actually supported the legislation. When they moved downtown, they knew what they were getting into.

Reply