4. Approval of an ordinance to amend the official zoning map to place a Historic Preservation Overlay on the property located at 10-12 West College Terrace, known as Terrace Lanes
My parents started bowling at ages 18 and 20 and since then practically raised me and my three older brothers there. Even before I was born, my mother would bowl pregnant, and even after I would be passed off from teammate to teammate as a baby so my mother could bowl her turn. At the young age of three I started bowling myself on the Youth Leagues every Saturday morning and, though I am 18 now, I still bowl on that league. It’s been 15 years. I even hope to bowl on the adult league because, though It is my final year with the youth league, I am so unbelievably grateful for all the memories and friends I made along the way. I still remember sitting atop my dads bowling bag, when I was much smaller, and having him roll me out to the car. I still remember making friends with the children from other families and heading to Baker Park while our parents bowled. I was always carried on someone’s back on the way back to the bowling alley because I was always “too tired” to walk. I still remember each and every birthday party, competition, and tournament that I ever went to at Terrace, including both my good and not so good bowling days. It’s memories like these that I Will remember for the rest of my life, and it’s memories like these that will be taken away if you get rid of Terrace Lanes. Bonds, friendships, and relationships are all things that have been built in that place; it has basically shaped the person that you all see standing before you. People have cried, they’ve loved, they’ve mourned in that very place that so many people want to tear down. I cannot stand for that. I cannot stand to look at the very place that I, and so many others, call home to be broken down right in front of our very eyes. Because to us, that definition of “home” is true. Terrace is where all members live in harmony together, United as a family.
So please, choose to keep Terrace Lanes. Choose to keep the indescribable about of memories stored away in that very sacred place. And who knows, if Terrace can stay alive, maybe one day you’ll be able to make many memories there as well.
Thank you.
My parents started bowling at ages 18 and 20 and since then practically raised me and my three older brothers there. Even before I was born, my mother would bowl pregnant, and even after I would be passed off from teammate to teammate as a baby so my mother could bowl her turn. At the young age of three I started bowling myself on the Youth Leagues every Saturday morning and, though I am 18 now, I still bowl on that league. It’s been 15 years. I even hope to bowl on the adult league because, though It is my final year with the youth league, I am so unbelievably grateful for all the memories and friends I made along the way. I still remember sitting atop my dads bowling bag, when I was much smaller, and having him roll me out to the car. I still remember making friends with the children from other families and heading to Baker Park while our parents bowled. I was always carried on someone’s back on the way back to the bowling alley because I was always “too tired” to walk. I still remember each and every birthday party, competition, and tournament that I ever went to at Terrace, including both my good and not so good bowling days. It’s memories like these that I Will remember for the rest of my life, and it’s memories like these that will be taken away if you get rid of Terrace Lanes. Bonds, friendships, and relationships are all things that have been built in that place; it has basically shaped the person that you all see standing before you. People have cried, they’ve loved, they’ve mourned in that very place that so many people want to tear down. I cannot stand for that. I cannot stand to look at the very place that I, and so many others, call home to be broken down right in front of our very eyes. Because to us, that definition of “home” is true. Terrace is where all members live in harmony together, United as a family.
So please, choose to keep Terrace Lanes. Choose to keep the indescribable about of memories stored away in that very sacred place. And who knows, if Terrace can stay alive, maybe one day you’ll be able to make many memories there as well.
Thank you.