On another interchange in Avon [See
Stopping sprawl here]
I hope First Suburbs Consortium's displeasure, over potential urban sprawl in Avon, gets some positive action from the Cuyahoga County Commissioners, after all; who else is there for support, right? A tad closer to home and after another year, we still have no response from the Planning Commission's preparation of a Master Plan for the bedroom community of Seven Hills (right in the center of the County) which raises tremendous concern over the power of urban sprawl. This study weighs in as a banker's almanac of linear averages, jumbled comparisons and mixed signals while, for some strange reason, ignoring the real issues. I was shocked because only after the real issues are identified, can we begin to plan for future sustainability. Maybe it was that stupid wish list that got me going, so I decided to sit down and decipher this 150pp 'Plan' with so many notes that it took a complete outline into a written review. Surprisingly, I found it to be a business as usual, market driven snow job as narrow as the town itself with absolutely no regard for substantive answers while destroying that suburb's green identity to serve as a primer for immediate gratification on behalf of urban sprawl - go figure...Sure, 'stimulate the economy' with bulldozers - for how long? I call it suburban rape with a constant thrust, without a hitch, thanks to the boss of your local sheriff. No charges are ever brought, the woods have been totally scalped, the developer makes a killing, city hall get's paid for making it all happen and we wonder why people are leaving, uprooted because of mistrust, pollution: air, water, noise, etc...Since we haven't learned the drill and our favorite reporter cannot get involved, then what's to do, take the deer's point of view? Perhaps, but please grasp the full extent of just how/what urban sprawl's effect is on the future of mankind and the vanishing American landscape...Be diligent when that ugly machine gets oiled and be on your toes well before that switch is turned because it's all over before you can think straight and there ain't NO stopping it - gone, forever. Developers can easily direct political traffic in vulnerable, virgin places as strange bedfellows who have their ways... am sorry, my days may be counted, but when it comes to urban sprawl; anyone who will not or cannot see the forest for the trees, should NOT be given responsibility over our children's future, period. These 'leaders', who dazzle the lunch crowd, have got to get beyond themselves to be determined enough to direct from the bottom up by enlisting natural science, insight, creativity or down to earth common sense, instead of catering to high politics and then sign off with a full stomach while the seeds of tomorrow grow hungrier as we speak.from Cool Cleveland reader James (Sky) King IDEA_S@webtv.net
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