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Click Here to review a draft presentation outlining the core recommendations of the Downtown Brockton Action Strategy: an implementation-oriented plan for downtown Brockton focused on catalytic development opportunities and place-making strategies. Importantly, the Action Strategy builds on work that the community has already supported through other planning initiatives. We don’t want to reinvent the wheel, and we don’t want our community to go through another visioning process. We want to see positive changes in downtown, and we want to see them soon. But a plan can only be effective if it is both supported and shaped by the community. So please come to our planning workshop on Wednesday, September 30, 6:30-8:00 PM, in the gallery space at 50 Centre Street (corner of Montello). During this event, you will have the chance to learn more about the Action Strategy and help us refine, identify, and prioritize the revitalization initiatives that will make Downtown more vibrant.
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Good overall draft. The ideas are right. Not just because many of them match my own plans to a point.
I think they are not aggressive enough, and with the size of our downtown and the desired density, we need to think taller than what I see in the massing studies. The walking streets are a big thing, I see a few new streets penciled in so as to not create superblocks everywhere.
Overall, I like it, and it's the right direction. Giant parking garage along Montello is not a great use for the location, unless they are burying it. Great that they are wrapping it, but giant parking directly next to a train station is opposite to rational thought or design. These are the folks least likely to need cars, and it should be designed as such.
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And because it's on the City of Brockton site, I would guess that it can be attributed to the Mayor.
The Screen Name is pretty anonymous.
The problem I see is that I've heard it all before.
How do we actually make it happen? How do we get investors to get this moving. People have owned these eyesore buildings for years, and in my opinion they could have already been rehabbed if they were sold at the actual value that they are and not at some pie in the sky value that they are holding onto them for.
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Get rid of the welcome mat to free loaders. Problem half solved!
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and
^^ agreed
Mainspring et al have set the tone for downtown.
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Request for Extension (Site Plan Review)
Father Bill’s MainSpring – 695 N. Main St.
not what you want if you're trying to change the Downtown and its surrounding areas IMO
Site Plan Approval
Property: Westgate Mall
(Proposed Starbucks)
(not sure the Mall can sustain this, but yay)
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I live in Brockton now.
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by Jason DeWitt | Top Right News
Governor Paul LePage of Maine isn’t running for president in 2016. But perhaps he should be.
Because he is doing in Maine exactly what Americans want to see — but other candidates are not even talking about.
Last November, just one week after his re-election, LePage did something unusual — he made good on a major campaign promise, by slashing funds for cities who give welfare to illegal aliens . The policy has already had a huge impact, with illegals fleeing in droves, and Democrat mayors having to defend giving handouts to illegal invaders before angry voters.
Now, just 6 months later, LePage is making good on another promise: to put an end to welfare leeches in his state, once and for all.
The results are something every American should see — an EPIC victory. And Democrats are FURIOUS.
Governor LePage passed a measure last year that requires recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistant Program (SNAP) to complete a certain number of work, job-training, or volunteer hours in order to be eligible for assistance. The new requirement has resulted in a dramatic decline in food stamp enrollment , resulting in a logical win-win for all of Maine.
At the end of 2014 the enrollment count for SNAP was approximately 12,000 individuals. Now that individuals have to complete either 20 hours of part-time work a week, volunteer for at least 24 hours per month, or get involved in a vocational program, the amount of SNAP recipients has dramatically dropped from 12,000 to approximately 2,500 by the end of March — a nearly 80% reduction in welfare.
The drop in numbers exceeded Republicans’ expectations by leaps and bounds. Instead of just giving welfare applicants an easy way out, Maine is forcing people to explore every opportunity for employment before allowing capable adults to take advantage of the system and the people of Maine.
Of course Democrats are insisting that the program targets those in poverty or rural areas but their argument is invalid. The individuals benefiting from the new food-stamp law are the ones who really need the assistance and aren’t just lazy parasites to society who suck the vitality out of taxpayers.
This is a huge victory for the Republicans of Maine and of course the sore loser Democrats are trying to tarnish the reformation’s success. Democrats are urging for special measures to ease back on some of the new requirements because they are “too strict”. Too strict to get off your butt and earn your money, or at least volunteer or learn a skill? Maine citizens aren’t buying it.
Below: Irate Portland SNAP recipients wait on line for vocational programs
Maine was one of eight other states that took similar measures and declined a federal waiver for the new rule that requires welfare recipients to get off their behinds and contribute to society like everyone else.
This huge drop in the number of able-bodied welfare leeches after forcing them to work for their needs proves everything we’ve ever reported about welfare abusers. They’re only looking for the next handout.
Now if only we could get every American governor to do what Paul LePage is doing — against both illegal aliens, and welfare leeches — we might well save our nation. --
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total pipe dream
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IMHO, I'm not sure the Mall is the right spot for a Starbucks, but maybe they're trying to update the Malls image? I'll be honest. Other than Best Buy, I don't think I've been to Westgate in 10 years.
Re: Father Bills, I believe, OS said it appears they're already been building. Besides, there isn't a politician in Brockton that would turn down any request by MainSpring. And that's not always a good thing IMO.
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If we all sang the same note in the choir, We'd never have harmony
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If we all sang the same note in the choir, We'd never have harmony
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Capt wrote: Father Bill's does wonderful things, but they don't belong in the heart f the city. And to allow them to expand is shooting us down even further. We need to relocate them and get this city back in shape.
that building being constructed is independent housing for the homeless... it's not a shelter
the shelters are problematic, and father bill's knows this
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additional, giving way for more and more. Do you think they'll
stop at that? Nope. not until they monopolize the entire city.
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Capt wrote: Same people, different building. Still more of the same, but
additional, giving way for more and more. Do you think they'll
stop at that? Nope. not until they monopolize the entire city.
well, not really...
yes, same people.... and yes, occupying space in the city that won't generate any revenue
but, that building won't be a shelter .... it's housing, and it will be primarily veterans
here's the thing... mainspring, although considered an 'emergency shelter' isn't necessarily functioning like one... the people there, are for all intents and purposes, tenants... some of them have been there for years....and they aren't allowed there during the day, which is why they populate perkins park
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