“We expected you to understand the disproportionate economic advantage you are giving a single private business and hope you would use some deference to limit that advantage to allow for the other tax paying businesses to have opportunities.” “Not a single other restaurant owner I talked with expressed that,” he said. Hawlrychak stressed he was not at the meeting to demand council cancel the street closures. He said he felt the approval was “unprecedented” and was made with “very little thought, discussion or opportunity for public feedback.” Hawlrychak said, following the conclusion of approved street closures on Grove Street this summer, he’d hoped council would reconsider approving every Friday and Saturday throughout the summer. Keeping with the restriction to avoid conflict with other events, the side street event was held three days in the summer. The following year, Hawrylchak said he tweaked his plan, partnered with other businesses and, with Downtown Lock Haven, Inc., created Second Side Street Saturdays. “During this meeting I was informed that, due to the city’s Main Street closures, they would only support the events if they did not conflict with the city events, suggesting I should hold them on non-weekend days.” “In 2021 I had a meeting with a previous manager of Downtown Lock Haven and a member of city staff in an attempt to have outside music at the train station (The Station Gallery),” he said. He said in 2021 he took steps to collaborate with a local non-profit to do a similar event in 2021.
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