tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post6187322726700881136..comments2024-03-01T07:43:16.529-06:00Comments on Smart City Memphis: Getting Memphis Into The Shrinking City MovementUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-57234801667387941082009-07-21T00:41:38.616-05:002009-07-21T00:41:38.616-05:00its really great information
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________...its really great information <br /> thanks <br /><br /><br /><br />___________________<br />victor<br /><a href="http://www.directstartv.com/jump.html?referID=oa-0-173189" rel="nofollow">Save OVER 50% for 3 months,Save $21/mo for an Entire Year!* on your Favorite Channels</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-87539531503909654522009-02-03T21:07:00.000-06:002009-02-03T21:07:00.000-06:00Best article I've seen to argue against consolidat...Best article I've seen to argue against consolidation!<BR/><BR/>Memphis needs to take care of Memphis ... even de-annex if necessary!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-75708043018367833522009-01-31T13:54:00.000-06:002009-01-31T13:54:00.000-06:00That's a fact MGThat's a fact MGAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-53989233695444029092009-01-30T06:31:00.000-06:002009-01-30T06:31:00.000-06:00The re-arrest rate won't drop until our politician...The re-arrest rate won't drop until our politicians grow a set and pass tougher sentencing laws, get rid of parole and early release and stop allowing bonds on certain arrests. Keep them in jail. For those that holler speedy trial, I'd argue that if we started getting tougher on some of the criminals then the number of cases in court would drop. As it is, you have 1 person that has 5 cases pending. Jeez.<BR/><BR/>It was mentioned about lower taxes in the outer cities. The irony is that as more people move to those areas the need for higher taxes to support the infrastructure goes up until it's no longer cost effective to move. However, until they catch up, we need to lower our taxes to compete. Get back to basics. Crime. Education. Taxes.Save This MGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08922374493922701067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-24843700482120536382009-01-29T09:58:00.000-06:002009-01-29T09:58:00.000-06:00I've waited a long time to hear somebody else say ...I've waited a long time to hear somebody else say this. The point is not just to be the biggest city, but the right-sized city, where our geographic size matches our ability to effectively provide urban services. We're now stretched too thin geographically to be efficient, and the constant rush to expand outwardly has led to miles and miles of throwaway sprawl-villes that just aren't going to come back. Much of what lies beyond the 240 loop (Airport/Hickory Hill area is a good example)looks so economically dead it feels post-apocalyptic. Turn off the utilities, relocate the last few homeowners into new developments in the city, bulldoze the vacant neighborhoods, and surround Memphis with a greenbelt instead of draining city resources to keep these neighborhoods on life support forever. <BR/><BR/>Shrinking cities isn't about admitting defeat, and maybe we shouldn't look at Youngstown and Detroit as our peers so much as Richmond, Va. This is a city that hasn't annexed in 20 years and it's reinventing itself as a smaller, cooler, more progressive place. And it's working.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-48611526477972938042009-01-28T19:33:00.000-06:002009-01-28T19:33:00.000-06:00Hey, aim low get low.Hey, aim low get low.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-982827764832589612009-01-28T12:30:00.000-06:002009-01-28T12:30:00.000-06:00You make some good points but you do not look at t...You make some good points but you do not look at the entire picture. First of all, how are cities that have annexed or consolidated done? How have Houston, Jacksonville, and Oklahoma City faired? Also, you fail to mention the strangling effect of Tennessee's tax restrictions that favor wealthly communities and place poor communities at a disadvantage.<BR/><BR/>If Memphis had not annexed, we would have less revenue and less influence in the County commission and the State legislature. It's easy to box the less affluent into a City and point your fingers at them and tell them that they need to do this and that. So far we've not seen enough of the type of leadership that examines the whole area and approaches it as one community regardless of political borders.<BR/><BR/>All in all, we are better off with the annexations rather than doing nothing at all.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-83317661806643044442009-01-27T18:23:00.000-06:002009-01-27T18:23:00.000-06:00Until the City of Memphis can provide a product th...Until the City of Memphis can provide a product that is competitive with the surrounding municipalities, people will continue to thumb their noses at Memphis and leave. This is obviously regardless if some socialist "feels" is isn't fair for investment to be directed outside the core of Memphis.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-82552218376047036892009-01-27T12:53:00.000-06:002009-01-27T12:53:00.000-06:00i agree 100% with your post. the shrinking city s...i agree 100% with your post. the shrinking city should begin with frayser. if the county, city, state and federal governments are spending money to maintain a largely decreasing population, with high foreclosure rates. part of the stimulus package is going to groups that will rehab and rebuild in neighborhoods noone wants to live in. it makes sense, to me, to explore buying these homes and leveling them. frayser and raleigh both have some of the most scenic views anywhere in the city. by returning these abandoned and vacant housing back to green space we save police, education, fire and safety resources.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-37582118845375259292009-01-27T11:40:00.000-06:002009-01-27T11:40:00.000-06:00The tax issue; our biggest "competitor" is Desoto ...The tax issue; our biggest "competitor" is Desoto County, and the tax burden there is no lower overall than it is in Memphis. People who move there are looking at lower crime and better schools. Fayette County, yes, taxes are much lower there, but services are almost nil, schools there stink as well. If you're older, have money, no school-age kids, and want a huge estate lot, maybe that works. The city of Memphis should continue to shed funding obligations, such as schools and health, that are cosntitutionally the responsibility of Shelby County and thereby lower the city tax rate to be competitive with other Shelby municipalities like Germantown, Bartlett, etc.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-70200861985432672612009-01-27T10:43:00.000-06:002009-01-27T10:43:00.000-06:00why not?Phoenix and memphis can get in a race to t...why not?<BR/><BR/>Phoenix and memphis can get in a race to the foreclosure bottom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-13054077319988499122009-01-27T09:46:00.000-06:002009-01-27T09:46:00.000-06:00I'd almost bet that if those politicians do step a...I'd almost bet that if those politicians do step aside that Memphis could be the first Phoenix to rise from this countrywide downturn.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-42996485383544515792009-01-27T09:43:00.000-06:002009-01-27T09:43:00.000-06:00Hey save this MG, you are right about your list an...Hey save this MG, you are right about your list and especially #2, it's more than 20%, sadly, but the idea is dead on. Almost every offender you pull up on the jssi websearch has at least 4 prior incidences. That's incidences of assault, domestic violence, drugs, robbery, sometimes sex crimes (all the sex offenders have multiple incidences and almost zero jail time) and that's only the tip of the iceberg!<BR/><BR/> Schools are already on the improvement! That ones is making progress finally.<BR/> There are only a couple of rabid paranoid racists left on city council, finally, but shelby county still needs work.<BR/> Dead on about the taxes, but without consolidation that one will kill Memphis we need garlic, silver bullets, steaks, and whatever else works for that vampire (and conspicuous council people who won't step down though they are 100% ineffective at anything but getting paid and hollering racism to prevent any real progress).<BR/> Blue Crush can only be effective if the sentencing, bail, and rehabilitation are made effective, otherwise, we'll be swimming in even more felons on the street than we are now.<BR/> <BR/> So, most of it's working, the rest must follow suit.<BR/><BR/>Maybe you've noticed that the Group Consciousness has changed in Memphis. There is an underground movement and it has absolutely nothing to do with the sometimes way over the top and out of touch with reality MSPJC. I love'em, but, sometimes.<BR/><BR/> There may be a correlation in those movement stats but any stats from the last ten years are highly suspect for sandbagging in my view.<BR/><BR/> Don't worry people, we've made excellent progress this last year and there are only a few more things that need to be done to begin getting Memphis on the right path with the right leadership in crucial areas. People are participating more. This is going to work, and there will be a bonus at the end, a big one.<BR/><BR/> Once we leave the desert and enter the building of the new Memphis, there will be no going back.<BR/> That should be exciting for all Memphians.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-24842573315957973252009-01-27T08:39:00.000-06:002009-01-27T08:39:00.000-06:00"Contrary to conventional wisdom, the largest exod..."Contrary to conventional wisdom, the largest exodus took place between 1970 and 1980 when 57,987 people left our city." <BR/><BR/>school busing began in 1973.<BR/>population of Bartlett 1970: 1700.<BR/>population of Bartlett 1980: 17,000<BR/><BR/>correlation?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-31471424792556130712009-01-27T06:26:00.000-06:002009-01-27T06:26:00.000-06:00If we want people to move back into the city, 3 th...If we want people to move back into the city, 3 things must happen. <BR/>1. Taxes must be lowered to match those of the areas around us. How can we be competitive if we're charging twice the price for inferior amenities?<BR/><BR/>2. We MUST get tough on crime. Lock 'em up and leave them to serve their entire time. I'd bet that 90% of the crime being committed is being done by 20% of the people who are repeat offenders. How many times have we heard lately that so and so robbed /shot/burgled so and so while OUT ON PAROLE??<BR/><BR/>3. Bring order, safety and excellence back to the schools. Get the trouble making kids out. Put them in their own school so that we give the kids who want to learn a safe place to do it. Hold the teachers AND PARENTS accountable.<BR/><BR/>In my ever so humble opinion, we won't see population gain until those 3 things happen and it won't happen with the current city mayor in office and I'm not sure it will happen should the current county mayor become the next city mayor. New blood. Bold ideas. Fresh thinking is what will take us forward. Not the folks that holler race every time something goes wrong. <BR/><BR/>I'm tired of it always being about black or white because it's not. It's about people doing and saying stupid things. We're better than that.Save This MGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08922374493922701067noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12509286.post-76663684798523709872009-01-27T00:11:00.000-06:002009-01-27T00:11:00.000-06:00BINGO!!!! OMG! That's why you did it, eh? Great po...BINGO!!!! OMG!<BR/> That's why you did it, eh?<BR/> Great post no matter what, that is what's so.<BR/>Cross your fingers and email, call, go visit, take out to lunch your most effective public servants and get them on hat bandwagon, or, go picket en masse, gotta do something to get the message through.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com