SAVE UPTOWN ALBANY BEFORE IT GOES SOUTH PARK.
Uptown Albany residential neighborhoods pay the lion's share of the property taxes
that support city government, services and public schools. Increased volumes of speeding commuter traffic, associated congestion, noise, litter and air pollution; plus increased incidents of grafitti, crime and blight are eroding the residential integrity and quality of life in Uptown neighborhoods. This, in turn, erodes the city property tax base.
Piecemeal urban revitalization projects, like Park South are not the solution. The solution is to be found in a comprehensive Master Plan for the City as a whole.
The local media has been paying much attention to urban sprawl. Perhaps, because the readers and viewers of suburban places are the primary liveblood of media.
WHAT ABOUT SLASH AND BURN URBANIZATION? one neighborhood after another falling into decline, as a shiftless population, living off the earnings and efforts of others continues to expand, to demand and require more services, that it is unable and unwilling to pay for? The result is higher property taxes , neighborhood blight and eventually a decline in life quality for all. Is it any wonder people , who are able, are fleeing to the suburbs?
Failure to deal with this slash and burn urban lifestyle is creating a domino effect. Today it is Park South or Delaware Avenue. In a few years time, it will be the 8th, 9th,. 13th, 14th and 15th wards.
When no one is left in Albany but the old and poor, who will pay the property taxes to pay for city services and the city public schools (including charter schools). Private schools? Forget about them, they will be long gone too.
Mr Goodbee appears on the Albany scene after a 20 year absence. He has no record of civic participation in Albany for that period. He says it's time for change and he wants to improve housing and the neighborhoods. The Times Union responds with a glowing editorial "Welcome, Mr Goodbee" Subtitled: "A challenge to Albany Mayor Jerry Jennings ought to mean an overdue debate on life in the city" (Tues Feb 22).
It isn't Jerry Jennings who is destroying housing and neighborhoods, marking anything and everything with grafitti, littering the streets with trash, robbing banks, convenience stores, fast food deliverymen; assaulting, mugging and killing innocent people. Who is doing these things? Why are they not being stopped? How can they be stopped?
Unless these behavioral questions are addressed so called urban revitalization is in vain.
What say you: Mr Goodbee? Times Union?.
The time for debate is past.NOW is the time to address the realities of urban life with some attitude adjustments and behavioral changes on the part of an irresponsible subclass of urban dwellers and the liberals who aid and abet that anti-social, destructive way of life by increasing property taxes, year after year, on responsible homeowners to subsidize those bad habits!
Being Mayor of Albany is like spitting in the wind, or a striped Bass trying to swim upstream in a polluted, debris filled Hudson River.
At least Jerry Jennings has been trying to . Archie Goodbee? Good Bye, Mr Goodbee. There is no reason for any thinking person to take your candidacy for Mayor of Albany seriously.
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