Comments by "mpetersen6" (@mpetersen6) on "City Beautiful" channel.

  1. How many vacant lots in urban areas used to have housing or other types of structures? Just about all of them.
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  2. Its more fun to blame the cows and Massholes.
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  3. In many areas we still have "corner stores". Only they are convienence or dollar stores. A corner store will generally have higher prices but you save money vs going to a grocery store for one ot two items.
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  4. the two most important infrastructure technologies in modern society are potable water and waste water treatment.
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  5. Try doing one of the old City Builder Series such as Rome or Pharaoh
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  6. In a lot of residential areas l think l would prefer the front of the housing (1) face a more pedestrian oriented lane with any vehicle access being an alley in back. The adresses are oriented to the pedestian lane. Cross streets would have no housing facing them. Setup every 6th or 8th cross street for small business. Have a major street every 16 blocks running parallel to the residential "streets" with a minor one every 8 blocks (2). Transit running every four cross streets with express lines running on the major streets stopping only at cross streets with transit service. Plus all single family or duplexes required to have an actual front porch. I really think front porches help build a more sociable neighborhood. 1) Single family up to possibly 6 unit. 2) Based on the block size where l live thats about 1 mile apart. Alley to alley being one block.
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  7.  @wclark3196  Well I can see one way to change those statistics. We can force people to move where there "betters" tell them to. Betters as in those oh so superior SJW types. Do we really want to go down that route. If people choose to move somewhere else that's one thing. The idea that government* should play a role in ensuring that every city or small town have a population demographic that perfectly matches the national make-up would not go over well. Besides have you ever even been anywhere near Sturgeon Bay? From what I've seen of the area it's nice enough. But I would not want to live there. During the summer the population of Door County is probably 3 to 4 times higher because of summer people who own a country house. And people taking a vacation. Mostly Flatlanders *and that's what it would take.
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  8. Locally we tried a pedestrian mall in our downtown in the 70s. Killed almost every downtown business. The biggest promoter was the first to close shop.
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  9. For viewers living outside of the US (l won't speak for Canada or Australia) you need to remember that the US basically consists of 48 competing "nations" with different tax policies, labour laws etc (1). I'm not forgetting Alaska or Hawaii here but say a company is looking to build a new headquaters in the Chicago area and instead decides to relocate to SE Wisconsin (2). That company will be able to retain a lot of its corporate staff while benefiting from certain economic benefits. I'm generally opposed to corporate "welfare" but l also realize that states and municipalities will go out of their way to attract jobs especially if they have seen massive jobs loss in another economic sector. I've seen it happen. I've also witnessed one of the worst examples of corporate "welfare" in the Foxcon deal. Locally I've also seen Amazon build and expand a local distribution center. Sure its brought in a lot of jobs but most of them have very high turnover. There are also situations were private citizens can take advatage of differences in state tax policies. Live in one state that has no income tax, shop in the one next door that has no sales tax. Oregon and Washington come to mind. 1) Look at the number of corporations that are organizied as a corporation in Delaware due to the advantages Delaware's laws regarding corporations. 2) This actually happened with Uline.
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  10. If one truely does not like hearing aircraft hold true true to your beliefs and never fly at all.
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  11. Trivia time. State Street, Madison.
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  12. My experience with NIMBYism is the local politicians who live in areas with higher property values that propose things such as Halfway Houses. But not in their area. If you propose it you should be willing to live next to it.
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  13. As someone who lives in a city on the western shore of Lake Michigan (Kenosha) lakeshore erosion problems are something I know something about. This is a problem that has plagued the Wisconsin and Illinios side of the lake for probably as long as the lake has existed. The currents in Lake Michigan run down the west side to the south. The current moves sand and other things to the south. A lot of the sand gets deposited on the shoreline from the area of the Indiana Dunes a up the Michigan side. You can see the effects of the current in the view douthalong the lakeshore. You can see that the beaches extend a lot farther out alongside the jettie that extend into the lake Pus the amount of lakedhore erosion fluctuates with the fall and rise of the lake level. The level of Lakes Michigan and Huron fluctuates over time based on the amount of percipitation. And like Chicago our lakefront is largely made up of parks, public spaces and beaches*. There's roughly 8 blocks of private homes and a private college. That's the only non public parts. *the beaches like many on LakeMichigan are not the best. One of the things that get deposited along the lakeshore are dead alewives.
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