From: Bohl, James Sent: Monday, May 16, 2016 9:24 PM To: Lee, Chris Subject: Fwd: Bucks' Arena design Sent from my iPad Begin forwarded message: From: Betty Adelman Date: May 16, 2016 at 9:11:59 PM CDT To: , , Subject: Bucks' Arena design Reply-To: Betty Adelman Dear Council Members Bauman and Bohl I have never contacted you before, but this is important. The design of the proposed new basketball arena is simply ugly. I won’t be diplomatic about it, it’s just unimaginably ugly. It will be an embarrassment to the City. Please do not honor artificial timelines over doing it right. I like to think I have a sense of what’s attractive and what’s not. I own a flower plant nursery and we grow flowers, beautiful flowers. Our flowers grow in gardens at the Smithsonian, Canada’s Royal Botanical Garden, the Missouri Botanic Garden, Longwood Gardens and many, many gardens here and around the country. Bus-loads of people come from the Midwest to see our gardens. I think I am qualified to have an opinion about beauty. I do not live in the City but I own a building within blocks of the new arena and keep an apartment there. I pay both state and city taxes and fees that are helping pay for this structure. This is not just a zoning or land use issue. It will be one of the defining elements of the City for years to come. Please do what’s best for the City, not what’s most expedient for the Bucks’ owners. And I’m an avid Bucks fan which makes this cringe-worthy design all the worse for me. Thank you Betty Adelman