"But I think a lot of that support, while there are neighbors on Palm Lane who do support it, comes from people in the community and around the Willo neighborhood who don't actually live on Palm Lane," he said. He's sympathetic to the concept of the concerts and he knows there's a lot of support for these events in the community. "There's absolutely zero parking on both sides of the streets. "That leaves the rest of the neighbors with the inability to hold a family gathering or have somebody over," Gilman said. His main complaint about the prior week's event was that it took up the entire block as far as parking. The music itself was not the issue, Gilman said. "Had they approached us, I would have told them, 'Probably not the best idea.'" "There was no courtesy extended to the neighbors to let them know that they wanted to throw a weekly concert in a residential neighborhood," he said. Gilman lives on Palm Lane, "probably six houses down, if even that," he said. Stephen Gilman was among the neighbors who spoke out against the concert series on the Willo Neighborhood Association Board Zoom call. "No one's out to get her." 'There was no courtesy extended' "Her neighbors came, she could've come," he said. He said Daniels wasn't invited to the meeting because it was an open meeting that she was welcome to attend. And there were a few people from Palm Lane on the call that brought up their concern over traffic." "Under block watch, we have both new business and old business," he said. Willo Board President Robert Cannon said that's because they hadn't planned to talk about it. It's Daniels' understanding that a neighbor at the far end of the street complained at a virtual meeting of the Willo Neighborhood Association Board after the first performance at the new location because people had parked in front of the neighbor's house.ĭaniels said that neither she nor Harper was invited to that virtual meeting, nor were they aware that their concert series was to be discussed. There was no mention of live music on the public agenda for the meeting. More music news: Van Buren owner explains why he sold venue to Live Nation We have the support of our direct neighbors here on Palm Lane." "So same neighborhood, same people having to hear the music. "One street north and four houses away," Daniels said. This was only the second performance the couple had hosted since moving a block north from the series' original home on West Granada Road to their new home on West Palm Lane. The couple recently moved from Granada to Palm They were also told they weren't allowed to continue to host their porch-front concert series and that if they did, the police would be back to give them a fine. Police informed her that her car was parked illegally, it needed to be 15 feet away from the corner, she couldn't have a glass of wine in her yard and there were too many people in their yard. "Three squad cars showed up with seven police officers, lights on, telling us that somebody was jaywalking and that was our fault," Daniels said. The Saturday concerts, which are free, have always run from 5 to 7 p.m. On Saturday, April 10, they were nearing the end of a 33rd performance in the series, a Leon Santiago concert, when Phoenix police arrived to shut them down at 6:50 p.m. View Gallery: Gallery: Metro Phoenix area concerts for Aprilįor 32 weeks, Nick Harper and Alison Daniels had hosted a series of socially distanced early-evening concerts, 528 Live, from the front porch of their home in central Phoenix's historic Willo district without incident.
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