Archive for April, 2008
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Alternative to Developer Driven Housing
One of the things I have noticed going to Corridor Housing Initiative meetings on 76th Street is how developer driven the solutions were to our senior housing issues. Yes there was “community input” but I can’t shake the feeling that the community was only given lip service rather than real power. After all I had [...]
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Monday, April 28th, 2008
Is “Too Much Senior Housing?” a Hard Question?
On January 14,2008 the Housing and Redevelopment Authority and the City Council had a special meeting to discuss senior housing needs in Richfield and Mary Bujold from Real Estate Research and Consultant firm Maxfield Research Inc. was there (the meeting minutes do not report in what capacity she was there - as a neighborhood volunteer, or hired consultant) to report on [...]
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Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008
I-494 Light-Pollution Problems
Night after night, the one problem on 76th Street, that is very clear is the amount of light pollution and light trespassing (which occurs when unwanted light enters one’s property) from the businesses and heavily light roadways along the 494 corridor.I can remember a time in the early 1970s when there wasn’t a greyish glow [...]