Making friends as an adult isn't easy, most friends are grouped around an activity at that point in life.

Hiking, tabletop games, volunteering, book clubs, etc.

Those kinds of things will be how you find your fit.

Good point, cannabis is definitely something the young crowd will come out for.

I have a feeling extra old people are coming out for the Galloway vote too though.

I just wish everyone voted and took it as seriously!

Takes awhile but that's how almost of us have done it. 20 years ago I barely knew how to use a wrench. Now the only thing I'm afraid of in the house is the main electrical lugs coming into the breaker panel. Beyond that, it's pretty easy if you're willing to sit, scratch your head, search YouTube, and solve the problem.

Houses and their problems are stupid simple, especially if you're ripping out and starting over.

65+ historically and continues to be the highest turnout. 18 year olds don't vote much, 30-40 year olds vote more often 65+ vote a whole lot.

I'm halfway convinced it's Fulnecky, or someone very closely related trying to build some grassroots public sentiment against the judge.

Well as soon as any of us read a document that paints Fulnecky in a positive light, that automatically raises issues of how biased the document is.

Fulnecky has the be the most irritating, negative, and obstructionist lawyer that any person outside of the legal community knows.

Stormwater was already debunked per the 417biz article who asked city stormwater/public works engineers.

OR LESS, preferably less. In my opinion 30% of your income going to housing is so much higher than I'd ever go.

Can't agree more. I used to have a $20 minimum to sell. Now it's $100, and even then I drag my feet and refuse to put any effort in.

If its under $100 it goes to goodwill, red racks, or dav, whatever I'm closest to. We have a constant 55 gallon bag that gets filled and taken to donation monthly.

Cheap junk builds up far too fast, especially with kids.

If it's under $100 and I don't want to haul it somewhere, it goes to the edge of the street and on FB, refuse to answer and put in the description 'wont respond, will remove post when gone'.

I've seen people fight over a broken 10 year old push lawnmower before.

I think the point being made is school board is hard enough right now, try something more realistic to see if you can handle the pressure and stick to your points under pressure.

Federal office is definitely not something you can get into easy, hell even a MO state representative seat takes a lot of work, I know a few currently running locally and have seen the crazy amount of time it's taken. Not to mention only getting paid $30k/yr for half the year of driving up to Jeff City, so hopefully you have a fluid enough job on the side that will allow that, and pay a bit more. Likewise just to make banners/signs you'll need a minimum $5000, so you also have to be good at asking for money, unless you can handle putting up that or more personally.

It's 2022 and we had 9000 people arrested for weed last year. Well that's just stupid.

Underrated comment.

Probably road salt for MODOT or the city. Have to store it somewhere dry.

It's pretty easy just takes time and effort. Squeaky spots like the other poster mentioned are almost always nails that have come up. Hammer the nail back in so it's all flush again, then walk around for 30 minutes and listen. Everytime you hear a squeak drive a screw into the subfloor/joist under you. Eventually you get complete quiet.

Not affordable, yet the truly affordable options that are presented elsewhere in town are argued against because the neighbors don't want poor or homeless near them. Damned if you do damned if you don't.

Public Works made a statement today that stormwater plans were approved as required state and city requirements. They likely have detention on site, any project over an acre requires a civil engineer to do an SWPPP, stormwater protection plan per the state. So with detention this development should add 0 additional runoff.

Developers don't know the requirements of ADA, accessibility, etc. Architects and Civil Engineers do, and rest assured they have legal liability if they don't provide accessibility to the site and/or building.

No argument on the neighbors, you're right, they don't want it, they've been very adamant. I'm sure MSU's neighbors don't like the school there, I'm sure halfway houses neighbors don't like them around, I sure don't like the 300 acre quarry being right off lone pine across from sequiota making the road shitty, dusty, adding no aesthetic value but it gets to keep expanding and digging.

I'll die on the hill to keep calling out NIMBYs in Springfield.

It sends a message, but unfortunately the message is going to be that Springfield isn't a good place for development because even though the arguably shitty developer jumped through all the legally required hoops, they won't be able to proceed. This is an indicator to future developers that Springfield might not be. A good market.

If you follow that logic what you will see is diminishing development IN Springfield, and it gets moved to the edge of town or neighboring cities. Driving development out of town is what everyone is truly worried about, and what I've argued on here many times.

I don't give two shits about this specific project, do it, don't do it, it really doesn't matter. What does matter is that Springfield isn't seen as a bipolar city and the rules in place are maintained or legally changed to what we want them to be.

So I agree, I think our city can do better, I think developers can do better, I think Galloway could be much more neat than what's being proposed.

The problem is, this is what's being presented. If this isn't accepted the guy is going to pull a Duda and just tear the existing buildings down, tear all the trees out, and leave it a bit muddy eyesore, and there won't be a single damn thing any of us can do about it because the city of Springfield has and will make sure that property rights trump all.

If this is the hill you die on, don't die for one plot of land, die for an aesthetic board that requires good design, die for zoning reform, die for giving good developers free money to do their projects in Springfield. Those are the things that will make Springfield better. Not this one shitty 5 acre hill.

Yes. Screw all NIMBYs, whether that's the ones who stopped the development of the first location of Eden Village 2, because they didn't want dirty homeless people near them OR if it's ones that want to stop luxury'ish apartments.

Both groups are opposite ends of the political spectrum but they might as well be the same people.

It does, the developer started by wanting to tear them down and revised it to keep them.

You will not. City residents only.

I'm with you, developer sucks, nimbys suck.

Only reason I'm voting for it is because it's progress I want to see happen. I wasn't in favor when they wanted to tear the old buildings down, but now that they're saving them, it's a WAY better option than someone coming in 10 years and demoing the buildings because they can (cough cough University Heights) and have the right to.

It's funny how against it everyone is when the most adamant and vocal opponent is the 'about faces' compound on the hill 2 properties over. Somehow they were able to build a commercial property with a parking lot years ago, but fucking pull the ladder up when you're done, no one else gets to!

Just read through a man's life from 2006-2008. He's seems like a dork, but also I bet he's super nice. 2 girls then twin girls, wonder how he's doing now.

Google says he's a doctor of psychology for kids in Vegas now.

If we could all act with a collective mindset you would have solved game theory.

You're not wrong, but the dynamics are more complicated, and we have to act as rational actors as we expect others to.

No Bucees isn't paying for MODOT on/off ramps. Bucees was announced and debated earlier this year. The on/off ramps and MODOT approval would have taken at least 2 years to plan, and execute.

So I can confidently say any work MODOT is doing is 100% unrelated to Bucees.

Tax deferral might or might not. The thing is, without tax deferral, we wouldn't get Bucees. Strafford might, Joplin might, etc. By giving a tax deferral we don't lose any money, so I fail to see the downside for the city.

We don't get taxed. Tax deferred for a set period of time (example 10 years of not having to pay property tax or sales tax, or whatever the deal is, which helps to pay back back the investment the business makes in the infrastructure, so that we the tax payers don't have to pay for a private companies build out).

Tax deferral is such a win-win. Sure we don't get as much in taxes for a business for 5 or 10 years. But by shooting it down we get zero. At least now in 5-10 years we get money. BUT that's also discounting the amount of travelers that will now stop and spend money in our city that might not have before.

It's a win win with no true arguable downside. Unless you just hate more people, in which case, go move to the sticks.

They all are, it's crazy.

I'm all about the additional tax revenue, and another attraction to bring surrounding rural folks into Springfield more often.