.....Detroit?.....
Posted on 03/08/2010 8:09:59 PM PST by cajuncow
DETROIT - Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields and farmland that existed before the automobile.
Operating on a scale never before attempted in this country, the city would demolish houses in some of the most desolate sections of Detroit and move residents into stronger neighborhoods. Roughly a quarter of the 139-square-mile city could go from urban to semi-rural.
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lots of jobs with them there walking paths, butterflies and lovely gardens..../s
“I think this would be amazing if they could do it.....understand that even people in run down neighborhoods who have been there a long time will not want to leave....”
So what do you propose doing with these people?
take them to Detroit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g09GtnWdBjc
I was there about 10 years ago for a 'walk-down' for a big municipal project we were bidding on and got back into a number of "neighborhoods" off the main streets to look at various 'infrastructure' that needed replaced.
Some of those old streets were lined with what were once beautiful old houses --- Victorian, Craftsman style from the early 1900s, that were either boarded up or burned out. Hundreds of them -- sometimes blocks long. Weeds growing up all around. It reminds me now of that stupid show about life after people but that is what parts of Detroit look like.
In other cities, those places would have been the dream of the "This Old House" gentrification set --- they would have been rehabilitated and become a Yuppie haven.
Even the Yuppies won't venture into Detroit. That is a message.
Turning it back into pasture is probably the best option. At least the city would not need to pretend thay provide service there.
Ooooo! This is SO wierd!
I had planned to e-mail my MI congress critters with what I thought was a brilliant plan I had just thought up today whill boiling down my first batch of maple syrup.
Says me to self, why not do CCC type jobs program and clean up Detroit?
Ya know, let em actualy WORK down there.
I’ve read of all the 4-legged wildlife that’s moved back into the area and figures, let ‘em, HAVE it!
Just like all my other great ideas..somebody else’s beat me to the draw.
How about making it a District 9 for all liberals.
Agenda 21 at work. Clustered dwelling and open land. Who controls all of those open acres? The Government.
It’s sort of like lopping off gangrenous limbs.
Liberalism’s fruit. Destroyed families, aborted babies, burned-out cities. And no fair questioning their premises, good intentions, or intelligence.
Why is Detriot shrinking? UNIONS have killed the place and almost everyone who can move HAS MOVED. Stated bluntly, whites, Asians and some blacks refuse to live in a place that is run like some central Africa Hell hole!
I have no idea....my point was only that even some of these poor people are attached to their meager homes....its not going to be easy to get them to agree to move...even if you promise a nice shiny new home....so the mayor has a lot of work to do...
The hole in your proposition.
If I'm getting a monthly check, plus food stamps, plus free medical care, what makes you think that I'm going to get off my fat a** turn off Oprah and actually do physical labor?
Nothing is going to happen until the welfare spigot is turned off.
Imagine driving into a city to find hideous weed patches, trash and homeless addicts living in cardboard boxes.
.....Detroit?.....
No Detriot thread is complete without a tour of the “Fabulous Ruins of Detroit”: http://detroityes.com/0tourdetroit.htm#The_Fabulous_Ruins
This is best idea to come out of Detroit in years. The only way they can save the city. Kudos to the planner who came up with this. I hope they have the balls and political muscle to pull it off.
Downside: Detroit will probably attract every migrant worker of the Equatorial persuasion in the lower 48 states.
Oh, wait. That's two upsides.
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