Tag: development_initiative
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Downtown Development Initiative: Search for Wholesome Goodness Continues…
I believed the Town’s web site covering the Downtown Development Initiative would be updated after Nov. 20th’s public forum. After ten days, I finally sent in a formal request. Here is Town Manager Stancil’s response: Dear Mr. Raymond: Thank you for our email message at 10:49 am on Dec. 1 to the Manager, Mayor and […]
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Downtown Development Initiative: Where’s the beef?
[UPDATE] How could the negotiations team done a better job informing the public throughout the process? Here’s two examples from Greensboro’s District 5 Council member Sandy Carmany covering their coliseum issues, this one from a year ago and this one from November. Sure, she wasn’t hampered by reporting on material potentially shielded under NC’s open […]
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Downtown Development Initiative: Culbreth and the Domino Effect
Chris Culbreth, a second term member of the Town’s Community Design Commission (CDC), stayed late Monday, Nov. 20th, to comment to Council on the proposed revisions for the Process for Revision of the Comprehensive Plan Interestingly enough, he spent more of his limited time counseling Council on the Downtown Development Initiative (DDI) juggernaut than the […]