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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the damage is done with the Pike plan. 
Yes, it should have been tossed with the street car. The trolley was the Lynch  pin. Once it was removed the whole thing should have been trashed. 
Also- lets be real about transfer of development rights.  It’s not a real thing. I mean - it’s real, but it’s done with legislative swipe of a pen. It’s can be undone just as quickly.[/quote]

Exactly. Instead of bussing, another way to break up poverty is to allow some of the Barcroft parcel for example, to be sold and gentrify, while placing AH on lee highway. The western pike is simply saturated at this point. [/quote]

I think it's too late for Barcroft Apartments - isn't that deal with the devil already sealed and delivered?  But if there is any way possible at all, I absolutely agree and will help advocate that the agreement be altered and only restrict half of the complex to eternal poverty. AND somehow include a similar 'mandate' that the half being displaced be re-constructed along Lee Highway - on the north side of the road would be truly genius; but just at a redeveloped Lee Community Center would suffice.

Now, what can we do about Columbia Hills and the other AHC properties at the western border?

I also agree re. the Pikes Plan.  It was predicated on a streetcar and the economic development that would ensue.  The streetcar was eliminated.  The economic development slowed, stalled, disappeared.  The Pike no longer (economically) supports the affordable housing component of the plan and it needs to be revisited - and by a group of people with a diversity of perspectives this time, not all the affordable housing advocates and developers like the first time.

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A good first step is probably to vote for John Vihstadt.[/quote]

Even though he wasn't able to stop it.  Did he support it?[/quote]

The pike plan was around before John V[/quote]

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