What's with the interest from the Buffalo News lately?
http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/356821.html
From the article:
“Yes, people here are thinking about walkable communities, but it’s hard, because until someone does it here successfully — well, no one wants to be the pioneer,” Tuyn said. “You know what happened to the pioneers. They got slaughtered.”
Maybe the savages that originally inhabited the land didn't like the prospect of having someone come in and change what was there on a whim to satisfy their own end.
“A lot of people think ‘smart growth’ means ‘no growth,’ ” said Stempniak, who got excited about walkable communities when a relative took her to visit Easton Town Center in Columbus, Ohio.
“That’s not true. It’s a mind-set we’ve got to change, and that’s above and beyond what the zoning codes can do. We need to rethink our energy use. We can’t just buy energy-efficient cars — we need to plan communities so that the everyday services we need are closer to us,” Stempniak said.
Dear Donna Stempnak,
Approving every subdivision, store and doughnut shop that comes your way is not being very astute in the way of rethinking our energy use. I would think that with all of the new subdivions, a St. Wal-Mart, Aldi's and the like, standing traffic will be sucking the life out of many gas tanks come this fall at Transit and William (along with many other traffic hot spots in town) as motorists sit through endless traffic lights trying to go through the motions of their lives.
I guess you should have been sent to Columbus a bit sooner.
-FF
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