Ethan Berkowitz's real vision of the Fairview Neighborhood in Anchorage

Earlier this month while on my business trip slash vacation.  I visited Oldtown Portland where I saw 25 homeless people sleeping in doorway really close to a joke city agency called the Portland Development Commission.  Ethan really wants to turn Anchorage into another Portland or Seattle.  He is tired having to take a three to four hour flight to find crazy.  His plan for Fairview is empty shops and making it the place where homeless can come to Anchorage sleep in the streets and call it home.  His homeless coordinator is a joke.  

In response to Chris Constant's piece in the Alaska Dispatch News about the pedestrian safety.  Here is the truth about all of these accidents.  Every one was the fault of the pedestrian since they were intoxicated had no sense of where they were walking on most cases.  Drivers had very little reaction time.  I really want to respond to the first death Phillip Chowok, Jr who was 41 who I went to high school with at Kodiak High School in the late 1980's and I have been a friend to him since then was evicted from the Black Angus Inn and had ran into traffic was a hit by a very experienced driver Shrepend Arapi which I was his dispatcher at Alaska Yellow Cab.  He was driving tow truck he did not have time to react.  The light at 15th and Gambell is not the problem plus neither is the light at 13th and Gambell.  The real problem is the fact we have an Oaken Keg at 13th and Gambell at the smallest Carrs Grocery Store.  If we have Carrs close the liquor store there you would solve most of this problem.  His solution for Fairview is have them sleep in the doorway while the homeless coordinator throws them a roll of toilet paper.  Chris and Fairview Community Council want something done go to the 8th floor bow down in front of Darth Berkowitz your mayor say your excellency can we have safe streets please.