Pulling at the Thread, Continued
We resume our end-of-year thread.
Some of the recent stresses in the city have been relieved, but we still face challenges.
Use the comments section here to highlight the great moments of 2005, the embarrassments of the year, and tell us where you think we should focus our attention in the coming year.
Some of the recent stresses in the city have been relieved, but we still face challenges.
Use the comments section here to highlight the great moments of 2005, the embarrassments of the year, and tell us where you think we should focus our attention in the coming year.
posted by All4Word at 10:24 AM
4 Comments:
Here's the last posting on the previous thread...be sure to check out the 20 or so previous postings down in the thread below.
Robyn Sekula said...
Sanitation issues: done
New forums for discussion of local issues: done
Great civic debates: done
I see a lot of progress in NA in 2005. I'd like to see more available child care options; that's been an issue for me. Part-time child care is virtually non-existent.
I'd like to see a good, large local grocery store that stocks a large variety of food.
I'd like to see a greater variety of locally-owned restaurants.
2005 has taught me to have patience; these things will come.
I'm sticking around.
Revitalization of downtown through incentives for new business owners would top my list of things to accomplish. I want to see upper story windows uncovered in the downtown area.
More restaurant choices is high on the list, too.
Biggest disappointment? Lack of cooperation, both amongst private citizens and administrators.
Randy,
I'd like to say that New Albany had at least one example where the various factions of the City, the NA-FC Schools and area residents came together to resolve an issue to the benefit of all parties and that was the re-opening of Locust Street to traffic. We can work together to resolve issues if we all have an open mind and a determination to move our city forward.
Thanks!
Jerry R. Steuerwald
Priority number one:
A clearly expressed governmental preference for the redevelopment of existing urban infrastructure over continued, disparate sprawl, including a very publicly stated understanding of the benefits inherent in such a preference.
Although nearly all avenues of community advancement are tied to that preference and there are growing numbers of citizens and organizations dedicated to it, there's been no strong indication, with the possible exception of Scribner Place, that elected representatives at any level of local government are capable of succesfully advocating for such a conceptual framework, let alone policies that would qualify as best practices within that framework.
If we can accomplish that, I think a lot of the other wishes will come true.
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