Mayor Donchez introducing the Packer Ave. study: “My goal has been to try to get Lehigh off campus and have more students in the community”

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Mayor Donchez introduces the public meeting on the temporary closing of Packer Ave. , January 23.

  • I have worked very hard to form a partnership with Lehigh University.
  • We have an excellent relationship.
  • My goal has been to try to get Lehigh off campus and have more students in the community.
  • And in the last few years [Lehigh] has had offices move off-campus.
  • Ambassadors, housing inspectors, I could go on and on.
  • We really have a very good working partnership and a very good relationship.
  • We want that to continue.
  • No decision has been made to close Packer Ave.
  • [studies done over the past year]
  • We will analyze the data [on this traffic study] and then we will meet.
  • There’s a process [his decision and then to City Council].

to be continued . . .

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