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On 2007-05-02 18:38, Swamp Tiki wrote:
If they are fifty years old or older lets get them on the National Register. We can get a step ahead of development trends and raise local awareness before sh** hits the fan. Planning...Planning...Planning. Get ahead of them.
What cranks my ass is (when protective measures aren't in place) that they don't ask for the opinions of the "little people." Instead they rock our world with their fat-cat design schemes and then expect us to except it and live with it. Developers don't care about whats right for our communites only whats right for them. @#!!*@##!!!!
Swamp
On 2007-05-02 23:38, bananabobs wrote:
Bottom line, like it or not, IT DOESN'T BELONG TO YOU. It belongs to them, they get to decide and I would go to arms to protect that right. I don't want them to close it but in the USA, we have freedoms and liberties and it is their choice.
Your last line about developers only want what's right for them...that is true of Planning departments in cities and counties.
I do not want to light you up and I understand the feelings, trust me, I wanted to take my daughter and her husband there in July.
First off....completely agreeing with everyone's anger, frustration and lack of power in a situation such as this and to address the above quotes:
http://www.nationaltrust.org/
Not to blow my own horn but I am a member of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, I live in an 1895 Queen Anne Victorian Home and live in a city that while they have Historically Registered Districts still manages to tear down and/or screw up historically important areas of the city.
The city/property owners hire developers and approve and disapprove plans for development.
If there's some new mall or crappy looking, generic building going up somewhere an architect designed it, someone approved it, it went before planning commissions where it had to be approved again....and most of those as a resident of a particular city you can sit in and put in your two cents.....believe me, my wife and I have been at many of ours and said a thing or two about what gets built or doesn't!
Finally, there are the pay offs, the look the other ways the contradictions to the rules....that's what makes all of this so difficult.
I had posted a different thread months ago....last year in fact about protecting our Historic Landmarks and encouraged people to join and support the National Trust...I gave up on the thread after I got so much heat and arguments instead of people just joining, educating themselves on what they can do in THEIR communities.
http://www.nationaltrust.org/
THIS was the sort of "protective measures" that SHOULD have been in place! :(
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