Archive for June 17th, 2007
you can understand my skepticism about the “new urbanist” mindset that seems to be growing out of control in America’s cities. The idea of this whole new breed of planner is: crowd people together.
Aside from the whole caged-in feel, and the problem of top-down coercion and control, one of my instincts rubs up raw against this movement: How un-green it is. That is, to encourage green outside of city limits, new urbanists in effect minimize green within.
Read it all: Townhall.com::Zoning out nature::By Paul Jacob
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A debate about the Canalside Project, bass pros & CONS, will take place Wednesday, June 20, 2007 at 6:30 PM at the Montante Center at Canisius College.
Lining up on one side will be a vocal lot supporting Larry Quinn, Bass Pro et al. in favor of the revised plan. The opposition will be led by preservationists who have been falsely accused of being obstructionist because of threatened lawsuits over the revised plan. The fact is, Larry Quinn, Bass Pro, et al. are the real obstructionists. They are standing in the way and holding up a plan that had already been approved.
Moreover, the revised plan includes $25 million in taxpayer funded corporate welfare for Bass Pro to build a retail outlet on prime land in the canalside project.
