off the top of my head multiple ISu Center Projects voted down, new mall, campustown redevelopment (now just a hodgepodge mess), several indoor rec proposals. I’m sure I could come up with more if I took the time.
Cytown Update
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Iowa City is the only university town in the state the embraces having the university there.
Ames and Cedar Falls want all of the benefits of having a university in town but want nothing to do with actually having a university and those damn students in town.
I live in Ames and don’t want to dump on it too much, but it gets old when projects always seem to get hung up here.
That they butchered and couldn't work on for a few months because they "forgot" to include enough bathrooms to meet code. not the smartest group of people in charge
Looks like CW is going to have to get Pollard back on a podcast to lie about threatening to close down buildings to get the locals back in line.
Sue Ravenscroft is/was an accounting prof too. She sucks. She’s the voice of the no growth crowd.
Time to stop listening to these people and just steamroll over them
Well that's not the answer. Doesn't matter how wrong the "other side" is, but you don't "just steamroll over them".
FWIW I'm 100% on the side of growth/cytown/JP
It is when one side has continually got exactly what they want at the detriment of the greater community for decades. There is no compromise with them.
I lived in a small town in SE Georgia for a couple years. They had a successful lawnmower factory they forced to relocate. Several other job creating projects and industrial expansions they blocked. They waited for the local unemployment rate to skyrocket, then they ramrodded a new nuclear medical waste incineration factory as a job creation project. The entire county had 16,000 people. Blacks lived on one side of town with tin roofs and dirt roads, whites lived on the other side of town with paved roads and brick houses. I couldn't wait to transfer out of there. The factory I worked at was 90% black production workers, 100% white office workers. Black cops arrested whites only, white cops arrested blacks only. They also had moonshiners and the Klan. Lots of underworld drug trafficers also. It was on the Miami-NYC pipeline. One guy wanted to buy my wife.
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It would be helpful for new development if the city manager wasn't 90 frickin' years old.
Just wondering what the market rate is for a wife. Asking for a friend, of course.
And Elvis was talking to Jimmy Hoffa while a freight train blew its whistle
