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The relatively affordable housing developments are tempting enough, but coupled with special mortgage sweeteners, they become impossible to resist for those at the margins dreaming of homeownership.
Of course, eventually, all will be forgotten, and another false economy will be created, collapse, ad infinitum.
I believe that the city’s resurfacing priorities and curb and sidewalk program should focus solely on arterial and collector roads. Local residential roads should only be considered if they are at the point of failure. If not at the point of failure, these local streets should be appropriately patched.
While the city’s policy to try to balance the resurfacing program by allotting approximately 75% to arterials and 25% to residential streets is commendable, I believe that because of the limited funding, higher speed and traffic arterial streets should get 100% of the resurfacing dollars. To me, it is a fundamental waste of resources for a local street to get repaved, while the surrounding arterials are crater-filled hazard zones. While only a few people drive on the local streets, everyone drives on the arterials. The pothole problem on arterials streets is directly related to the increasing time lag between resurfacings. Arterial streets that have been fairly recently resurfaced have few, if any potholes, while those that haven’t are riddled with them. These potholes cause expensive damage to vehicles, damage that people can not afford, particularly with the inflationary economy of the last several years. These potholes can also cause accidents and injuries.
For those reasons, I am asking that no requests be made to pave local streets, and I would ask that DPW only resurface those local streets that are at a point of failure.
Lastly, I would ask that sidewalk priorities also be focused on arterial roads for many of the same reasons. Although, the DPW’s general policy is to not construct new sidewalks, so as not to add to the future repair inventory; it seems to me that eliminating sidewalk gaps along arterial streets is much more important, particularly more important than replacing sidewalks along local streets, again, since the pedestrian traffic on arterial streets is heavier and generally transportation-related and not recreational. I would ask that the curb and sidewalk program focus on eliminating sidewalk gaps along arterial streets and extending the sidewalk network in major traffic areas.
There is nothing risky about spending someone else's money. It's only a risk when it is your money on the line. Just as it is for homeowners who do not make a downpayment for their house, it is easy to walk away when its financed with borrowed money.
By the way, it is going to get worse before it gets better. Those predicting a turn-around by the end of the year are dreaming.
Wow, now I know what I want to be; a party planner. All of the hula bola about the Superbowl by
The recent run-up in gas prices is a result of 1) increased demand 2) a crazy war, 3) inflationary monetary policies of the Federal Reserve and government generally, 4) the falling dollar and 5) commodity speculation. The most recent run-up in prices from $3+ to $4+ is mostly the work of speculators, as their speculative dollars have fled the phony housing market. Until the speculators are distracted by another bright, shiny object, gas prices will continue rising.
Government perpetuates itself by always solving problems with solutions that are not really solutions. So, of course, either the problems persist or the "solutions" create new problems, which government proposes to solve with more half-baked solutions.
Government officials never want to concede that there are some problems that they can not solve.
Of course, when government largess is made available, someone will always be available to take it, but willingness to participate in a pyramid scheme does not validate it as a viable or appropriate method of development.
Most pyramid schemes collapse. Unfortunately, government can levy additional taxes, borrow money and use all sort of financial voodoo to maintain the pyramid regardless of its long-term impact on the city’s core mission or viability.
Kudos to Honda for extorting 141.5 million dollars (okay, only about $40,000,000 directly in their pockets) from the taxpayers of
My first reaction to the request for incentive packages by Honda is that the location analysts for Honda should be fired for picking a site that can not meet their needs, without major infrastructure and other financial incentives being paid by someone else. So, why aren’t they picking a site that does not need massive infrastructure improvements, so that no one, including the taxpayers, has to spend millions of dollars beyond the cost of the plant? Either Honda really needs the incentives to make the project work, or they do not need it and just decided to steal some money from us. Of course, we were happy to give it, as “My Man Mitch” was grinning ear-to-ear, as were the Honda executives. Mitch, when you can get a company to locate in