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Contributed by: DR. SEAN REIF D.C. on 1/8/2007

LARGE CITIES are attracting new residents from the suburbs. Many elderly, single people, young couples, empty nest families, are drawn to neighborhoods that feature a lively mix of cultural and consumer resources and UNIQUE HOUSING. They are attracted because mixed uses of commercial and residential neighborhoods are convenient and sensible. Open spaces are used by more people more of the time with increased safety. Newcomers are drawn to traditional quality locations as well as to the HISTORIC AREAS that offer restaurants, offices, entertainment, and stores alongside warehouses and factories converted into spacious residential lofts.

In growth towns apartments should be permitted within the central business district. Housing must be allowed above the street level commercial establishments. In the town center, it is wise to strengthen various types of uses that serve a public purpose, such as education, government, and recreation. These public building can be mingled with private residential, office and commercial buildings. Although segregation of housing from certain industrial activity makes sense because of aesthetic, access, and environmental issues.

Why not require the town center to have playgrounds and day-care facilities to that families can be accommodated? Why not assert some DIRECTION for such centers so that a place of QUALITY is created?

Making it convenient, agreeable, and safe to walk in the town center should be a basic goal. Pedestrians follow the shortest path. Their routes should be as direct as possible and street crossings can be designed for safety. Alternative paths can be fashioned out of alleys and building lobbies; shortcuts can be arranged through parking lots and parks.

Any town that wishes to attract new immigrants should strengthen its center. If designed to appeal to the pedestrians and if filled with uses, it will attract residents and visitors.

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Submitted By: DR. SEAN REIF D.C.

posted on 1/8/2007 @ 2:19:10 PM

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Americans deserve and demand good spaces. We deserve to share the evidence of our history. We deserve living environments better than the ones sprawl has offered us. But stopping development from happening does not guarantee that good development will occur. That guarantee can only be earned one neighborhood, one town, one city at a time. We need to be aware of the forces, attitudes, values, and personalities that have driven us to the places we are today. A major corporation COULD EVER come into the surrounding territory, assemble land secretly, and spring a huge project on the unsuspecting public. It happens every day. The grounds for legal challenges are great, because people demand a greater stay in the future of our communities.

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Submitted By: Jan Jackson

posted on 1/8/2007 @ 12:27:45 PM

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You wrote, "Any town that wishes to attract new immigrants...". Just what type of "immigrants" are you talking about??????

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