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The City will be taking public comment, either in writing or via e-mail, through December 2, 2015. Those comments will be taken into consideration and incorporated final plan which will be presented to City Council in January 2016 for their consideration and approval. Please e-mail your comments to the Planning Department with the words “Action Strategy” in the subject line.
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Get rid of the welfare and scum and problem solved. People will be lured here if that’s taken care of. No schemes, no planning, no committees and no tons of money being spent on performing stupid studies. It will take care of itself
If we all sang the same note in the choir, We'd never have harmony
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... so nobody ever better think about redesigning those areas!
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"Pressed by Susan Joss, the chairperson of the Metro South Chamber of Commerce, Baker refused to give any clues on the imminent decision, which is important to many elected officials and businesspeople in Brockton who want to revive the once thriving downtown area. Baker compared the question to requests from journalists who want information on an announcement before the press conference takes place.“No!” Baker shouted. “I’m not going to step on my own answers.”
m.enterprisenews.com/article/20151217/NEWS/151216602/13406/NEWS
Baker went on to say "It’s something that we would like to bring to some sort of conclusion shortly after the first of the year.”
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They have identified different properties that could use rehab, and how they are landmarks in the city that are deteriorating.
Without some kind of link to actually make these improvements happen, the document is not much more than a work of Science Fiction.
How do they plan on making it happen? Who will make the improvements?
I would love to see a new police station and the present one turned into a period train station. That would be an awesome gateway to the city center!
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This is where they need to start. Until then it will be the same old, same old.
If we all sang the same note in the choir, We'd never have harmony
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They focus in the wrong places on the wrong things. The issue is no one lives downtown, not that there is no place to park downtown. Any and all parking should be limited to what is absolutely needed , and should be kept on site when structured, and on street for transients.
Ummm, 55 undeveloped acres connected to downtown. Let's put a homeless shelter and a police and fire house there..... OK and the other 52 acres???? Our downtown is tiny and should be dense, but any chance to expand it in smart mixed ways should happen. This is a way to expand and integrate the urban fabric, and this is the best they offer?
Unfortunately responses I've gotten from Mr. May show he has the suburban mindset of so many others. It has a bit more urban understanding than some, but is obviously being swayed to match the status quo. Parking does not equal vibrancy. Small one way street with on street parking and wide sidewalks are a good thing.
Main street and legion parkway need infill and clean up, but mostly they are built. They should not be the focus of a study. The main area of study and development should be easy of here and focused around the train station and BAT hub. The huge block the bat is on and the post office block are the two biggest opportunities for creating neighborhoods with thousands of residential units and businesses. Right now they are at about 2% of their best use. Main street is the historic backbone that should be maintained, almost all the rest is a blank slate due to plenty of previous poor planning.
We have one opportunity to get most of this right, we shouldn't be half assing it. Once it's built, we're stuck with it, no matter how undersized or poor a use of land. If they fill quick, does the next developer grow bigger? Hopefully, but the best locations all end up undersized.
Just disappointing. Not surprising, but that's what makes it even more disappointing.
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I also think we should be trying to attract businesses to the outskirts. On Manley Street and West Chestnut we had quite a few businesses back in the day. And reading the "remember when" thread it's good to see some of the historic businesses that had Brockton as a home town.
Maybe the time of smaller regional businesses is gone, it's a shame if that's the case. But Stoughton just scored an Amazon distribution center. That would have been a great addition!
Not to think this is off topic, but I think the added taxes from these businesses would help spur the downtown rehabilitation.
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lol
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A link to the story www.wcvb.com/chronicle/tuesday-december-29-waltham/37105392
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"Do the right thing, even when no one is looking"
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SEMPER FI....SO GLAD I FOUGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY
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As our country developed, cities contained neighborhoods that offered their cultural specialties in restaurants and corner stores. Clusters formed over common habits, faiths, foods, language, interests, and places of birth. Getting a J-O-B and learning the L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E were crucial. Suddenly, though, it is not politically correct to even speak of this if you are not of third-world descent. The origins changed, and the attitude brought with them stinks. I would love to live where we admire each other but I feel many local emigrants demonstrate the worst traits of their poorer nations. I do not sense the urgency to assimilate that existed when my also-poor ancestors came here from Eastern Europe, Poland, and Lithuania. I do not see gratitude at the opportunities available. There are many disrespectful lunkheads who simply want to be first in line. The problem is multi-faceted. If we continue to give unlimited handouts and arrested offenders are sent back to the streets, if drugs mean more than food and property owners are not accountable, if those brave business owners cannot feel safe, this will fail. As long as we talk about bullets from guns that a machine detects but we cannot identify, we will not entice the balance of middle class wealth and commerce that we require. The plans are promising. Will our leaders implement them successfully? I hate to say this but I do not see the strength and fiscal responsibility to support it. I am hopeful and doubtful at the same time. Still, there is no "for sale" sign on my house ... yet. I do want this to work.
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