[SustainableTompkins] bike to work

[Thomas Shelley]

At 12:44 PM 5/8/2008 -0400, Gay Nicholson wrote:
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>A good way to get started on increasing density is with in-fill projects  and
>redevelopment of low-density, one-story retail into 3-4 story mixed use
>buildings.  ....rest deleted....

Dear Friends--A good example of this type of development is the property on 
W. Buffalo St. (between Meadow and Fulton) that was a abandoned auto parts 
store that is being reconstructed and expanded into a multiple unit 
apartment building.  It includes an interior first floor room for the 
storage of bicycles, among other features.  I am a member of the 
Conservation Advisory Council and we immediately approved this project, it 
being the type of development that we are looking for--appropriate 
densification with almost no environmental impact.  Tom

Tom Shelley
118 E. Court St.
Ithaca, NY 14850
607 342-0864
tjs1 at cornell.edu
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"Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present 
without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own 
needs."

The World Commission on Environment and Development,
Gro Harlem Brundtland
Our Common Future, Oxford University Press, 1987

MY NOTE:  Sustainable development does not mean "sustainable growth" as 
growth per se is not sustainable.  And the term "sustainable" has to mean 
"for a very long time" (A. Bartlett).

"The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives."        Sioux proverb