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Watching the oil disaster playing out in an area of the country that feeds millions of people, we ask ourselves, why wasn’t this prevented? We know oil rigs blow up, we know that our dependence on oil creates environmental disasters year after year. How long will it be before our seas be unable to recover from . . . → Read More: Extreme energy = extreme disasters We’ve lived in Eastwood for six years, and each year we notice that more and more young families are walking past our house. This is just one sign of a neighborhood on the upswing – the joy of tiny tots and the promise of new energy and new ideas to help Eastwood continue to develop to . . . → Read More: Eastwood Parents Network Tomorrow’s Neighborhoods Today Agenda: For More information and to RSVP (suggested!) Not too many weeks ago we were all pondering the business model of “Family” Video, the company that has shown an interest in tearing down a building on James Street, putting up a parking lot and installing a single-use building within a couple feet of a church. While selling porn flicks from a back room. Turns out . . . → Read More: Movie Gallery closing remaining stores Pass the word! A diversity of people from all corners of Eastwood is needed to build a giant puppet! Eastwood could create its own huge puppet and be a part of the Art-In-Motion Spectacular on September 11, 2010. THE PUPPET This coming weekend, May 7, 8 and 9, Nightingale True Value Hardward in Eastwood will be having a special plant sale. Purchase your plants during this time and a portion of the purchase price goes to projects in Sunnycrest Park. Also, something you may find very useful and available only at our locally owned hardware store: FREE DELIVERY . . . → Read More: Plant sale benefits Sunnycrest Park Recently, we were told that the governor has allowed New York City and Syracuse to protect their watersheds from hydrofracking. But that’s for now, and of course anything can happen in a world where toxic chemicals are allowed to be pumped into the ground and the waste brought to the surface. If hydrofracking is allowed anywhere . . . → Read More: YOU are the protection of our drinking water Mike Sutton sent this in to the Walkable Eastwood email group today. I think it’s one of the best ideas I’ve seen in a long time – giving kids the opportunity to participate in the world of work here in the community. They get to know local business people while tossing pizza dough! What could be . . . → Read More: Put Kids To Work Day at Papa John’s Rhinebeck, NY, is one of the Hudson Valley’s most charming villages. It has that very historic feel, including the country’s oldest B&B (George Washington actually did sleep there!) and a citizenry fiercely protective of the “look and feel” of the area. And the real estate values reflect that.
Dear neighbors, Please read the following letter. It takes so much less effort to make three phone calls than to later wish we had and to have to find ways to get clean, safe drinking water. Our City of Syracuse water supply is not safe, it’s just temporarily on hold. “Family” Video gave a presentation at Monday night’s TNT meeting. In essence, despite their pronouncements of neighborliness, the real message was this:
There was virtually no positive response to the presentation and many people were quite unhappy with what they saw. Their plan violates the overlay district zoning standards as well as city regulations that prevent the sale of adult materials within 1000 feet of a church, school, or residential area. Continue reading “Family” Video to Eastwood: “We always win.” The “Family” Video store being proposed at tonight’s TNT meeting (Huntington Elementary School, Sunnycrest and Forest Hill, 7:00 pm) has been the topic of discussion in the Walkable Eastwood email group. The consensus: it’s a no-go on two fronts.
Not one of over a dozen comments in the email group of over 100 members was in favor of having this business in Eastwood. This community has spent years fighting bad design – and winning – so we’re not about to turn back the clock and allow suburban-style development in our urban community. That would cause all our property values to drop and would be a slap in the face of the James Street business owners who develop, successfully, following the guidelines. The northeast corner of James and Midler, known as “the old Steak and Sundae” or “Wittigs Ice Cream”, has been sitting for some time, being allowed by its owner to rot and bring our property values down. “Family” Video is bringing a proposal to the TNT meeting on Monday evening (March 22, 7:00 pm, Huntington Elementary School, on Sunnycrest at Forest Hill). I’m guessing that most of this blog’s readers can now tell exactly what is wrong with all three proposed site plans. (If not, read over the James Street Overlay District Zoning Standards.) This article was posted exactly one year ago. Do we understand any better now the monetary and quality-of-life impact that design and development, good or bad, have on our neighborhood? It’s time we got very clear about what we want and do not want in Eastwood. Word on the street has it that in a meeting last night of the Common Council, the idea of demolishing the old Steak & Sundae building at the corner of James and Midler was brought up. Please correct me if I’m wrong (go ahead! down below, in the comments section), but I thought the owner of this property already asked for this and it was turned down because he had no plan for building something else there. [Editor's note: corrections will be found in comment section.] Why is this week any different from that week? And why would anyone want to reward this person with what he asked for back then? The owner of this property has allowed his building to blight our neighborhood and owes back taxes on it (what happens to you when you owe thousands in back taxes?). He’s been approached a number of times by Stephen Skinner, owner of the Eastwood Plaza, with offers to buy and fix up. Written by Maureen Harding, published with her permission: There are several myths floating out there in Syracuse that somehow mistakenly are taken as “fact” concerning the Walkable Eastwood group of neighbors: Myth: Redevelopment at the northeast corner of James and Midler (the former location of Steak & Sundae ) is being prevented by the Walkable Eastwood group. Fact: The . . . → Read More: Urban myths about Walkable Eastwood Do you know who in your neighborhood is running a business right here in Eastwood? Are they people who might also be hiring people who live in our neighborhood? Doesn’t it make sense to make our purchases from them instead of from an out-of-state chain? I just culled this from the October newsletter sent out by Syracuse . . . → Read More: Eastwood – and Syracuse – first There’s one way to get upstate New Yorkers to turn off all reasoning ability: just say the four-letter word: JOBS There’s no doubt about our need for them, but we’ll believe even known liars if they just whisper “jobs!” in our hopeful ears. Remember all the jobs that were supposed to be produced at the Mistake . . . → Read More: Hydrofracking = dangerous jobs Only you and your neighbors can stop hydrofracking in Onondaga County (our drinking water’s watershed). Your government (Albany) is dysfunctional and too busy figuring out the economic mess. Think this (below) can’t happen to us? If not, what are you thinking? CAN YOU DO THIS WITH YOUR TAP WATER? from JOSHFOX on Vimeo. Read and learn: Catskill Mountain Keeper WORKING TOGETHER . . . → Read More: Can you do this with your tap water? |
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