proposed development

A 1,700 acre mixed-use development campus outside of Austin, TX, dubbed "Wildhorse Ranch," sits in limbo as promised economic development remains unrealized.

I don’t usually Copy & Paste articles and posts from elsewhere and put them up here. I’m making an exception because this post says it all pretty well.

Pamela A. MacLean, Law.com, 08-11-2008

A New Jersey appellate court handed a victory to homeowners in a long-running eminent domain dispute with the city of Long Branch, N.J., finding no actual blight in an area set for condemnation and redevelopment.

From the Friends of Farmers' Market list serv:

I read Narvel Blackstock’s recent letter to the editor with disappointment.

I read Narvel Blackstock’s recent letter to the editor with disappointment.

Christine Kreyling gets knee-deep in the controversy over the proposed development in the Bells Bend area of Nashville:

No more than a week ago and straight from Occasional Muse, I posted some of the dirty tricks that some developers use to avoid public scrutiny and feedback on their proposed developments. Here was one of the first developer strategies the Muse relayed:

All of you pro-developer journalists and political communications types at the Metro Courthouse take note. Carol McCullough has an outstanding list of dirty tricks used by developers (and the politicians who love them) to supress citizen participation in the planning process.

The community of Bells Bend and friends who are trying to preserve its historic agricultural qualities have a website: bellsbend.org. Their mission: