The Power of 10 is an idea developed and promoted by the Project for Public Spaces: http://www.pps.org/articles/the-power-of-10/ From the Project for Public Spaces web site: “At the core of the Power of 10 is the idea that any great place itself needs to offer at least 10 things to do or 10 reasons to be [...]

The Downtown Plan contains great goals and big ideas. I am not suggesting that anything be changed, but am offering some additional ideas that either are big and not ready to be accepted yet or small and as such not rising to the level of a planning document. The big ideas are to recreate a [...]

There is an internal contradiction in thinking among Republicans who are anti-train and anti-transit while at the same time being anti-tax. It is more costly to provide municipal services to spread out, auto-only, oriented development than it is to provide services to compact, transit-oriented development. It costs more to provide for roads, emergency service, snow [...]