[Grovenet] What makes a city livable? Was: ACTION ALERT: Call for Measure 37 Suspension & Hearings

[Steven]

This is one of the problems I've seen with the Metro. Back to the rail. 
The Bay Area has BART. Basically, the speed of the train changes to meet 
the need. I can get from east bay to downtown farther and faster than 
our horse drawn carts.
We could have easily put our new growth in less useful land. Keep the 
farms in between for their benefits.
With the interstate highway system, we do concentric circles around the 
metro. Imagine a large circle for the rail. From Salem to Mac to FG to 
PDX to Oregon City.

David Morelli wrote:
>> ...
> That is an unfortunate consequence of decisions made when the land  
> use process was first adopted.  Rather than encourage multiple  
> independent communities growing from cross-roads to village to town  
> to independent city, the choice was made to direct the growth to  
> existing cities.  Rather than preserve independent cities each within  
> their own boundary separated by open spaces, the open spaces were  
> placed outside of a single large Urban Growth Boundary and all green  
> spaces within the UGB was sacrificed to development.
>