City planning becomes obsolete when ignored
Open letter to Guilford County planners: Thanks for the invitation to attend the updating of your 1989 Plan for Southwest Guilford County ("Growth overtakes area plan," Nov. 27).
If I understand your current situation, it's that the combination of developers, annexation and the paving of roadways for our transportation hub has rendered what was once an excellent, well-thought-out plan obsolete. So now it's time to dust it off and bring it up to date with reality so that we can move forward. Only here is where I struggle.
If the county's been pretty much gobbled up by those ignoring the first plan and doing just what they want, what exactly will the function be of this new and improved plan? Pardon my asking, but don't you planners feel a little, well, silly sometimes going through these motions with a straight face?
I think I'll just read a good book that night as it's probably a better use of my time.
Bill Yaner
Jamestown
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Plan? Coulda fooled me.
Great letter.
Posted on December 7, 2006 8:32 AM
Come on nitpicker, it should be common knowledge that the published "plan" was a ruse. The real plan is what happened!
Money is too alluring to follow guidelines!
Shalom
Posted on December 7, 2006 12:30 PM
Darryl,
I agree. It seems there's always something going on behinds the scenes. A recent example would be the last minute school redistricting map that appeared just minutes before they redistricted High Point schools.
Love of money is the root of evil and all that.
Posted on December 7, 2006 1:07 PM
nitpicker, you did NOT have to bring in the GCS Board of Education did you!?
Have you read the article about Dudley's plumetting graduation rate? Amos Quick noted that it was due in some ways to the redistricting and sending "problem" Grimsley students to Dudley!
I never heard that said about the HP Andrews & Central problems being bussed to SW Guilford!
What hypocricsy.
Shalom
Posted on December 7, 2006 3:01 PM