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Posted on 06/09/2010 12:18:50 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Senate moved closer on Wednesday to making the concept of "livable communities" a part of national law that would provide federal grants to help local governments implement comprehensive city planning.
Almost a year after Sen. Chris Dodd, the Banking Committee chairman from Connecticut, introduced a bill, the committee held its first hearing. The bill proposes giving livability grants to metropolitan organizations and creating an interagency office on sustainable communities within the executive branch.
The grant amounts would depend on the size of the city and the use of the money. The bill would authorize $100 million in total each year through 2013 for planning grants and $3.75 billion through 2013 for implementation grants.
A similar bill was introduced in the House of Representatives in February.
Dodd described the bill as combining housing development, public transit, and infrastructure and land-use planning into one comprehensive approach to city development. Currently, many of those decisions are made separately from one another, and Dodd and others said the partitions have led to urban sprawl.
Livability advocates promote public transportation and bike paths and building energy efficient homes. The payoff of combining city planning will be great, according to Dodd.
"Our nation is facing a number of significant problems, including a struggling economy, an explosion in home foreclosures, the looming threat of climate change, an increasingly worrisome dependence on foreign oil, deteriorating infrastructure, and, yes, worsening traffic congestion," he said.
Other senators said the bill will reduce the rates of asthma in children, draw younger people back to abandoned downtown areas, reduce obesity by promoting walking and bicycling, and get workers to their jobs on time.
Critics say the bill is vague, extends the reach of the federal government too far into the dealings of local governments and costs too much.
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Airstrip One, Oceania
Central planning by the Ministry of Plenty.
Just another 3.75 Billion dollars of new spending. These goofballs keep on writing hot checks that will be left to our kids to fund. Maybe dodd figures since he is retiring, he might as well put the icing on the cake he created with the bank extortion plan.
Don’t we already pay city taxes for this type of stuff?
sounds like the “Smart Growth” plan of Al Gore and other liberals that
dominated the town I live in now (Columbia MO).
We recently had some ADULTS voted to fill the office of mayor and
two city council members...replacing the liberal nutburgers pimping for
“Smart Growth”.
In less than a month, IBM says they are bringing 800 jobs to Columbia.
Although it seems to be a verbotten topic, I suspect IBM made their
decision when they realized ADULTS were running the city once again.
If you want to make cities livable try detaining the criminals in long term prison camps for a change!
This is a waste of money primarily because within the next few years, American cities won’t be livable at all. They will be radioactive wastelands similar to Pripyat in the Ukraine, near the Chernobyl disaster site.
The reason for this will be because of multiple nuclear detonations from Russian and Chinese strategic nuclear weapons in a massive first strike.
Idiots! Where the heck do they get the notion that cities are part of the Federal Government? I can understand DC, which was meant to be a federal enclave (although I think much of it should be retroceded to MD).
HUD should also be dissolved. Housing and urban development are state issues, not a federal issues.
“Our nation is facing a number of significant problems, including a struggling economy, an explosion in home foreclosures, the looming threat of climate change, an increasingly worrisome dependence on foreign oil, deteriorating infrastructure, and, yes, worsening traffic congestion,” he said.”
ALL OF THESE CONDITIONS HAVE BEEN CREATED BY THESE LUNATICS!
My sanity may not hold until November.
Point being, the cities or any place else will never improve until the people do.
Great post. Thanks.
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Is this going to be part of the 5 year or 20 year Politburo plan???
That’s the view looking north from the 125th/Broadway elevated subway station in Manhattan.
TRANSLATION: Our government wishes to shut down inner city slums and move their current occupants (and CREATORS) nearer the suburbs! So our own tax dollars will be used to devalue our property! Sounds like a lot of FUN, doesn’t it!
more like a 50 year plan,, these bastards dream hardy..
Thanks. It was just a guess.
I don’t spend very much time in cities, other than an occasional trip to Charlottesville, Richmond or, {shudder}, Washington, DC; and I people from NYC would probably consider both od those “small towns”.
No kidding!!! People USED to be well dressed even when they had no money!! Men always wore sport coats...even to baseball games!! Those were the days.
AMEN! cut taxes!
also, bulldoze DC!
That looks like the former East Germany!
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