[LukeL]

So Detroit is going Green?

[MrEdd]

A really big Devil's night?

[mlocher]

Roughly a quarter of the 139-square-mile city could go from urban to semi-rural.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.

Bing-O!

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Seems like a prudent plan. I’d also recommend this approach for 95% of New Orleans.

[digger48]

Here’e your forty acres....

[Cicero]

OK. And who gets to pay for this? Us?

[Second Amendment First]

The network of city halls was established by former Mayor Coleman A. Young, who believed it was important to bring City Hall to the people instead of forcing them to visit downtown, where the Central District office exists in the Coleman A. Young Municipal Center.

Need we say more?

[Gay State Conservative]

Somehow I doubt that there’ll be a single welfare sponge parasite that will leave Detroit as a result of this shrinkage.

[Vince Ferrer]

If they made Detroit the setting for the next Transformers or Blues Brothers movie, they could make money tearing down all those buildings.

[cranked]

Reminds me of “New Detroit” concept in RoboCop....

[tflabo]

Pros and cons with this decision. While it’s good that the city consolidates its services and expenses it’s bad that federal $$ will be necessary for the transition and also that some homeowners will be forced to move out against their wishes. Leftist liberalism helped destroy a once thriving city.

[1rudeboy]

I think this is fantastic. Good luck to Detroit. God knows it needs it.

[martin_fierro]

Roughly a quarter of the 139-square-mile city could go from urban to semi-rural.

Make it 3/4 and you're talking.

[Ditto]

Roughly a quarter of the 139-square-mile city could go from urban to semi-rural.

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.

[SkipW]

Agenda 21 at work. Clustered dwelling and open land. Who controls all of those open acres? The Government.

[Arthur McGowan]

It’s sort of like lopping off gangrenous limbs.

[WellyP]

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!

[jmaroneps37]

http://www.collinsreport.net/2010/02/27/so-they-really-are-going-to-surrender-and-tear-down-sections-of-detroit/

[ComputerGuy]

Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century
has now turned into:
Detroit, the very symbol of American liberal blight for most of the 21st century.

[Rebelbase]

No Detriot thread is complete without a tour of the “Fabulous Ruins of Detroit”: http://detroityes.com/0tourdetroit.htm#The_Fabulous_Ruins