Contributor: Erin Mattingly(erin)
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I don’t know if they care anymore or not…
Posted on March 29, 2010Before I get into the most recent progress of the downtown revitalization plan, I’m going to take a step backwards and explain the two groups involved for the city. The first group is the Mayoral Round Table and is made up of community members that the mayor hand chose – mostly business owners downtown, city [...]
maybe they do care?
Posted on February 28, 2010In my previous blog, I briefly mentioned a downtown revitalization plan that I’m helping with at work, and how several people, even before the planning process started, expressed negative feelings towards planning and the idea of doing anything with their downtown. Since then, we’ve held the first Community Visioning Workshop. About two weeks before the [...]
Public Interest?
Posted on January 31, 2010It seems like TV, at least more times than not, portrays small rural communities as being full of close-knit people that love going out on Saturdays to help repaint the fence around town hall or plant flowers along Main Street. This image is not always accurate, but why not? For one, smaller communities don’t have [...]