A Mission to Make Suburbs, Well, More Like the City
Culvert Chronicles, The › August 27, 2009
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The "Downtown" that Petula Clark evoked in her 1964 pop song of that name (where "you can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares") never made much sense to anyone who worked or lived in an actual downtown. It was a song for people who did not.
With a political future to consider, Mr. [Thomas R. Suozzi] voiced many of the same convictions, but with a different emphasis on the preeminent suburban political issue, which is taxes. By building apartments near commuter rail lines and attracting young people to suburban downtowns with "fantastic restaurants and small shops," he said at the conference, "our major purpose is to expand our tax base and lower taxes."At times, they erupted in applause when speakers uttered phrases like "commercial-facadeimprovement tax districts," or "benefit-assessment-basis taxation." The notion of "multiyear capital improvement programs" was also quite popular.See the full content of this document
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A Mission to Make Suburbs, Well, More Like the City
The "Downtown" that Petula Clark evoked in her 1964 pop song of that name (where "you can forget all your troubles, forget all your cares") never made much sense to anyone who worked or lived in an actual downtown. It was a song for people who did not.
So, blaring from the public address speakers to...See the full content of this document
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