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suburban sprawl
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Downtown and its future
Careful planning and development incentives can guarantee that downtown will serve and benefit all of us.
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Feedback 4/30
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Changing faces
Rochester has made another National Top 10 list. And like our poverty ranking, this one’s not something to be proud of. Earlier this month, the Smart Growth America organization released a study of metropolitan areas in the U.S., ranking them by how compact or sprawled out they are. Among the large metro regions (defined as […]
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Lessons from Detroit
Last week was a tough week in Rochester, with the news about Valeant moving the B+L headquarters to New Jersey and laying off hundreds of employees here. And I keep thinking about Detroit’s bankruptcy. There are a lot of differences between us, certainly, beginning with the sheer magnitude of Detroit and its problems. Detroit spreads […]
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No handouts; just justice
Monday’s New York Post carried a story with this title: “Broke Cities Beg Gov Dime and Dime Again.” Cute headline. But the Post was talking about us. And it was quite an insult. According to Post writer Fredric Dicker, Rochester, Yonkers, and Syracuse “are ‘close to bankruptcy’ and are looking for a bailout from Gov. […]
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Growth without growth
Like a lot of people, Neil Jaschik has his e-mail set up to append a quote to each outgoing message. Jaschik’s, attributed to the second-century Rabbi Tarfon, reads this way: “It may not be your obligation to finish the task; but neither are you permitted to refrain from beginning it.” They’re fitting words for anyone […]
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Reader feedback – 6.7.06
EMPTY PLANNING Regarding Sujata Gupta’s “Emptied Out” (May 17 and 24): In my opinion, there are many more dimensions to this issue. One of those is the current level of planning throughout the county. Why, for example, are permits still being issued to builders for erecting new, speculative housing tracts on virgin land? Why not […]
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Emptied out
Eleven percent of Rochester’s houses are vacant. The reason: the city’s housing
stock was built for 300,000 people; Rochester’s population is now less than 220,000.
