On Tuesday, June 1, 2004, at 10:27 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a thirty year plan
That will only cost a couple billion dollars to implement.
with a board of thirty with two sets of
alternates that can also participate. It represents neighborhoods, businesses, and
environmental groups and operates by consensus.
But not the thousands of ordinary working folks that will lose their jobs if the plan is ever implemented.
Extend West River Parkway to North Mississippi Regional Park.
Sorry, but there is no right of way available. But we could fix up 2nd Street North and Washington Avenue North.
Convert the BN Bridge to a pedestrian and bicycle facility linking both
banks.
Do you really want to take on the maintainence costs of that antique? And have you priced new river bridges lately? And keep in mind that the only other way across the river for BNSF to their west bank customers is via the CP Rail bridge. CP rail will charge a hefty price to use their bridge, have you budgeted for that?
Reconstruct Marshall Street as a boulevard, with new landscaping and bicycle
lanes.
But you'll still have to build it to truck route standards per STAA.
Land Use and Implementation
Establish an Upper River Development Corporation as a non-profit entity with
the sole purpose of implementing the Upper River Master Plan.
This plan is years old and that has yet to happen... says something of the interest in said plan.
Rezone property in accordance with the Upper River Land Use Plan. Close the Upper Harbor Terminal. Phase out heavy-industrial uses in Upper River corridor.
Resulting in a loss of thousands of jobs. BTW, this is a navigable waterway so we can't restrict interstate commerce and the Corp of Engineers by closing a port. Unless we replace it with another one- maybe just above the falls in front of all those million dollar condos?
Transition land use in corridor to a mix of parks, residential,
We already have a housing surplus, so the city has no business subsiding more overpriced new housing along the river.
light-industrial, and commercial uses.
Which we already have in the corridor- so why chase them out?
Develop new riverfront residential and mixed-use communities on west bank.
And after you've torn down hundreds of businesses and eliminated thousands of jobs, who'll be able to afford all that new "river front residential". Oops, I forgot- that new housing is for the rich people and us working class folks are supposed to leave the city. Isn't that what they call gentrification?
Thanks, Scott Vreeland Seward near the River
Isn't Seward below the falls?
From Hawthorne Above The Falls,
Dyna Sluyter
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