Showing posts with label development. Show all posts
Showing posts with label development. Show all posts
Monday, June 06, 2016

At Summit Springs work session tonight, council will get an itsy bitsy glimpse into City Hall's smoke-filled secret planning chamber.

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6:30 p.m., tonight, council chamber. Regular meeting at 7. Soothing gin available at The Exchange, pre-game. Just plain citizen Aaron H...
Tuesday, April 12, 2016

FLASKBACK: What I wrote on the occasion of Summit Springs ... nine years ago.

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From council coverage on February 5, 2007 ... a little over 9 years ago, when the first iteration of the Summit Springs property developm...

VIDEO: Summit Springs development and roadway proposals, Redevelopment Rubber Stamp Commission, Tuesday 12 April 2016.

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The topic is Summit Springs, a huge hilltop property development off State Street, which apparently began forward motion (probably downhi...

Green Mouse Q and A, Episode 2: Let the city know how you feel about the Summit Springs environmental clustermuck.

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On Tuesday afternoon, Jeff Gahan's cloak-and-dagger Redevelopment Backscratching Commission will consider the future of Summit Spring...
Monday, April 11, 2016

Green Mouse Q and A: How the Summit Springs hilltop clustermuck got to this point.

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On Tuesday, Jeff Gahan's handpicked Redevelopment Rubber Stamp Commission will consider the future of Summit Springs, a hilltop comm...
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Friday, April 08, 2016

Behold the aesthetic monstrosity of Summit Springs, coming soon to our low-density State Street corridor.

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Team Gahan can't install a crosswalk at Main and W. 1st, and then there's this. The fact that the area has already been timbere...
Friday, April 12, 2013

Kotkin versus Florida.

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Good reading in this point-counterpoint from the Daily Beast . Richard Florida Concedes the Limits of the Creative Class , by Joel Kotkin ...
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Monday, August 08, 2011

County planner asks: What are your thoughts on the Annex building's future?

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In recent weeks, Don Lopp, the Director of Operations and County Planning in Floyd County, has twice joined the blog discussion about the fu...
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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Community Park, North Annex, development and the fog of political obfuscation.

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OSIN's Chris Morris braves the eternal glower of the county council's prez-for-life to report this story: No decision yet on North ...
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Friday, July 15, 2011

Is Floyd County seeking to develop up to 18 acres of Community Park?

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The Green Mouse went out to forage last night, and he came back with this interesting tidbit -- today's special at the Floyd Boobocracy ...
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Wednesday, April 06, 2011

Good stuff from Gonder on development and externalities.

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It's always nice to see an elected official going beyond a spreadsheet to make community development and the value of the commons a part...
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Saturday, August 14, 2010

Institute 193 presents Shaffer's Residential Facades

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TRAVIS SHAFFER: RESIDENTIAL FACADES August 12, 2010 - September 5, 2010 Opening Reception: August 12 | 6 - 9 PM Institute 193, Lexington, KY...
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Thursday, March 26, 2009

Today's Tribune column: "Usable and reusable expertise."

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The devil didn't make me do it. The facts are another matter ... BAYLOR: Usable and reusable expertise ... Scrolling back through my b...
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Monday, March 23, 2009

Benefit to the entire community, not the developer? Is that legal in New Albany?

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In one of at-large councilman John Gonder's best blogs yet, he makes so much sense that one wonders how he managed to get elected in the...
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Thursday, June 05, 2008

The developer, the ordinance, his sister and her vote ... buy now and get bonus photos and a "REWIND" for the same low price.

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The Tribune’s front page headline couldn’t have said it any clearer: New Albany Councilwoman votes in favor of brother’s development , by D...
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Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Good ethical judgment and strict legalism: Not necessarily the same thing.

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Over at New Albany 15A , Coop makes the right call. His piece is reprinted here in its entirety (italics are mine): Benedetti-Recuse? Concer...
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Thursday, September 20, 2007

Why is “The Gary” proposing duplexes for a locale so far removed from the churches that (his) people want to attend?

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Here’s the scoop, courtesy of the Kerberos’ Korner blog: WTF: Slumlord Proposes Duplex Near DePauw Avenue The long and the short of it is t...
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Sunday, August 05, 2007

REWIND: Imagination Atrophy Syndrome, downtown churches, the "right facilities," and the "wrong" developer.

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Last week I was part of a conversation between two fellow “improve downtown New Albany” community activists, and one mentioned the numerous ...
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