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We Need Room for the Community to Gather

I am writing this to the City Council. I saw your layout, of what you approved, the Downtown Plan. I have to say that everything in the picture looks like it was all pushed together. The lower income house building needs to be across the other side of Railroad Avenue. The L Street parking ga…

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Thomas Soules, Livermore