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Renew and restore our community to our prior status as one of the best US cities to live in.
Until we grasp this, homelessness will not decrease but only increase. Spend the money on the root causes. https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1UD7MynyMc/
11/17/2025
Please voice your opinion in person or via BeHeard. The city is already overspending their budget and plan to raise taxes to recoup.
11/14/2025
11/12/2025
📣Call to Action: Please contact our city council members and city leaders and ask them to pass a median ordinance, which prioritizes safety for all.
Below is a template to help draft your letter. Email addresses for city leaders will be in the comments, to copy/paste. Thank you!
Subject: Request to Prioritize Comprehensive Safety Measures in the Proposed Median Safety Ordinance
Dear Council Members and City Leaders,
I am writing as a concerned resident of Columbia to urge you to support the passage of a new Median Safety Ordinance—provided that its wording incorporates robust, multi-layered protections for all roadway users, including drivers, pedestrians, cyclists, and individuals with disabilities.
While I appreciate the intent to enhance safety, the ordinance must go beyond restrictive measures, to address the root causes of collisions and near-misses on our medians and streets.
To ensure the ordinance is effective, I respectfully ask that you prioritize verbiage that:
• Establishes multiple layers of engineering and design protections, such as raised medians, refuge islands, and advanced signage to physically separate vulnerable users from high-speed traffic.
• Mandates traffic calming on high-risk corridors, including narrowed travel lanes, and roundabouts proven to reduce severe crashes.
• Requires enhanced visibility and accessibility features, including high-intensity lighting, leading pedestrian intervals, and clearly marked crosswalks at all median crossings.
• Aligns explicitly with evidence-based safety recommendations from the National Association of City Transportation Officials (NACTO), the Federal Highway Administration’s Proven Safety Countermeasures, and Columbia’s own Vision Zero commitments, as well as our CBB Pedestrian Safety Study.
• Upholds and strengthens our existing City Charter provisions on safe, complete, and accessible streets, ensuring no provisions inadvertently criminalize poverty, homelessness, or routine pedestrian behavior.
These priorities reflect data-driven best practices and will create a safer transportation network for everyone who drives, walks, or transits through our city. I commend the progress on projects already completed and underway, such as the CBB pedestrian safety study and the “Como to Zero” (Vision Zero) initiative.
Como Renewal Project spoke directly with a CBB engineer, who clarified that no medians nor intersections are safe for loitering. I encourage the Council to build on this momentum, with an ordinance that sets a national standard for median safety.
Thank you for your leadership and commitment to protecting all Columbians.
Sincerely,
Your Name
Your Address
Your Email
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Columbia Resident
Lots of buzz about the proposed city ordinance regarding pedestrian safety. Some NGOs and council members are against any restrictions, even though engineer experts state people should not linger on medians or at intersections. Jacque Sample is encouraging people to be vocal, and so are we. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AEiSZJbjy/
10/29/2025
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Our priorities for city leaders over next 2 years:
âś… Increase the number of police officers
âś… Pass and enforce median safety ordinance
âś… Stop violating public safety charter
âś… Stop enabling homelessness
âś… Steward city funds wisely
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City Council
October 20, 2025
INTRODUCTION AND FIRST READING
“Amending Chapter 14 of the City Code to add provisions related to the rights and duties of motorists and pedestrians in major corridor roadways and intersections.”
10/10/2025
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UM President Mun Choi on Eagle Eye Drive at 5 radio show, with Mike Murphy, 93.9 Eagle
“There’s a lot to be said about proactive policing. To ensure that people are following the law. When there’s an environment that gives the impression of lawlessness, it creates even more lawlessness.
It’s addressing people that are in encampments. It’s addressing juveniles with guns that they brandish illegally. It’s dealing with burglaries and robberies.
And ensuring that the prosecuting attorneys office has the support to be able to prosecute these cases to conviction…
I am not going to stop until we see change.”
City Council, 10/06/25
MONEY MATTERS: City Taxes & Fees
đź”· Increase in sales tax, property tax, parks & rec fees, and parking meters.
đź”· It is projected that expenditures will deplete reserves by FY27.
“Seewood and Lue are advising that operating expenses should not exceed operating revenues – by definition unsustainable – and utilization of cash reserves should be limited to one-time purchases.
The city council is using the luxury of their healthy cash reserves to fund ongoing operations – until they decide to come clean with the public and ask for a tax increase… Or cut expenses.”
Reference: “City setting the stage for 2026 tax hike vote as budget pressures mount” by Mike Murphy of Como Buz, 9/19/25

10/04/2025
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