Zip Codes in Sarasota/Bradenton - Income and Home Value 2016
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1/09/2021
Connecting The Grid
The effort above should be made by the Sarasota Manatee MPO with the two County and municipal goverments. The plans should be incorporated into Land Use and Transportation Plans
The maps show planned connections to improve the grid in eastern Will County south of Chicago. As the area urbanizes the "Kinks" in the grid should be "worked out", with logical connections made.
It is remarkable how little planning effort is made to improve the base road grid of a community. A little thinking and planning can make the grid much better. There will always be some misalignment of roads and some roads that do not connect. A good plan should make sure that logical connections are planned and that they are developed before or when new development occurs.
Part of the reason that we do little of this is that most of us focus on our community only, with minimal thought about connections to other communities. Or we may come up with a good connection but it fails at the next town.
Transportation planning is often focused on major road development, or on programming of funds for improvements. There is seldom anyone looking at the overall grid of a large area and coming up with logical plans for improvements over time.
The road realignment plan should be integrated with the land use plan. And realignments at County and State lines should have special interest since their is no single entity paying much attention to these important connections. The map below shows road realignments with the land use plan for eastern Will County with the proposed third airport for Chicago.
The map below shows the plan for connecting local roads between Illinois and Indiana south of Chicago.
Of course one of the concerns is that it will take many years for this area to develop. Will the local planners consider this when they approve a land use decision? Often they will not and we are then left with irritating dog legs in our grid.
To Grid Or Not To Grid, That is the Question
To Grid Or Not To Grid - That is the Question
An interesting article by city planner Pete Pointer, FAICP, ALA, ITE on the grid system in city development in the Journal of City Development.
journalofcitydevelopment.com
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Having grown up in the midwest I am a grid guy. There is nothing wrong with some curvilinear streets and cul de sacs to give our urban landscape a little diversity. But they should connect back into a logical grid and not just meander aimlessly. And good planning demands that cities and counties examine their grids, and prepare a plan that proposes to connect and realign roads to complete a logical grid.
More on Grids Below
Grid plan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A simple grid plan road map (Windermere, Florida). ... Perhaps the most well-knowngrid system is that spread through the colonies of the Roman Empire. Images for grid system of roads
- Report imagesSuburban areas to get world class integrated roads - Times Of India
articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com › Collections › World ClassApr 19, 2012 – CHENNAI: The extended areas of the Chennai Corporation will soon get world class civic amenities as the local body has approved Rs 182 ...
1/08/2021
Babcock Ranch - A Whole New Town - Sustainable and Solar Powered
Babcock Ranch is a planned community located in southeastern Florida. The planned new town is being developed on 17,000 acres of land. The planned community was approved as part of a public-private partnership with the State of Florida and local governments. The deal established the neighboring Babcock Ranch Preserve .
The community will be completely
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1/07/2021
Beacon of Democracy - City Upon A Hill
In my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, wind-swept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here. That's how I saw it, and see it still.[11]"
Ronald Reagan
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Yesterday was horrible. And it makes it much harder for the US to hold ourselves up to the world as the Beacon of Democracy - A City Upon A Hill.
1/03/2021
Amazing Phone Call Jan 3, 2020
Jan 3, 2020. In the midst of a terrible Pandemic, President Trump is focused like a lazer beam on .....
trying to get Georgia to change the election results.
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Audio: Trump’s full Jan. 2 call with Ga. secretary of state
January 3, 2021 | 3:33 PM EDT
In a one-hour phone call on Saturday, Jan. 2, 2021 with Georgia election officials, President Trump insisted he won the state and threatened vague legal consequences if the officials did not act. This audio has been edited to remove the name of an individual about whom the president makes unsubstantiated allegations.
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SAD
Federal Deficits
As the graphs show, we have put ourselves in a very bad position. We had to run big deficits to fight the pandemic and the great recession of 200-2009, but much of the growth in debt is simply that we spent more then we earned (taxed). We have been on a sugar high.
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