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Understanding Downtown Issues
Understanding Downtown Issues—getting with the program or stepping away from the game. Notice all the garbage being exposed at the new Levitt Pavilion work site. Former site of town dump. The pile...
View ArticleHorizon of Development: Themes for Downtown
1. Efforts to create more parking, in the form of garages– beware of parking becoming dislocated from the actual stores. Bedford Square has achieved success by adding parking on their property; soon...
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New Pad
Oh yes, got new pad! Pokhara Nepal I was just arranging things in my new pad; putting them away, setting up the computers and all the equipment. I have certain requirements; I like to be close to town;...
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Welcome to ‘Your Downtown’
Did you ever see that Star Wars movie where the guy says, “we’re not the droids you’re looking for,” well it’s like that. “Your Downtown is not the downtown we’re looking for”. My downtown doesn’t...
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The Bulletin Board — every little town has one except W
The new Levitt Pavilion /Photo: Greenburbs.com Now — there is no longer a bulletin board downtown. We need a new one and it should go in a little kiosk at Jesup Green. A town center without a bulletin...
View ArticleGetting Parking Samples
When going about trying to understand the parking dynamics downtown ‘broad-view’ metrics don’t reveal the reality on the scene! A planner would need to drill down much, much more, as I have done. I...
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Even Though
Sigrid Schultz They want to put the Gunn-House in the Baldwin municipal parking lot; even though it will result in a net loss of 60-76 parking spaces. In light of the current parking issues this is...
View ArticleDowntown Planning Committee’s ‘French Farce’
The ‘Your Downtown’ campaign; being pushed by the selectmen’s office is doing a disservice to the public. The publicity efforts, like posters and the website, are creating an unrealistic expectation;...
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Why Plans Get Shelved
There are very specific reasons why master plans for downtown Westport don’t get to the implementation stage decade after decade! But first we need to lay a little groundwork. “We exist in a world of...
View Article“Phase Tweeked” D-town plans to get
As if a fly on the wall at the Downtown Plan Steering workgroup meeting, I listened last night to the minutes from a couple days ago. “Why do I torture myself?” I mumbled and stumbled over to my rather...
View ArticleRiver-Scape
Downtown has been very vibrant lately. The new sidewalks are going in on Main Street. Bedford Square and the Gunn house are under construction. I have so many questions about downtown, just personal...
View ArticleBody of Water
It was wonderful to be out on the sound yesterday. I saw many thousands of fish percolating to the surface with shining flashes of silver. The sky was dark and brooding with streaks of sunlight...
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Hot August Nights / The Guns of August
It was a hot muggy August night, I was listening to an old live album from Neil Diamond, can’t remember the name, Live at the Greek or some such. The music was putting me in a sentimental mood. I was...
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Emotional Anchors
Dark clouds loom over an empty downtown Westport as all the anchors for the town center have been systematically removed! As if with a huge crane! 9/13/2015 Photo: Todd Tracy for THE GREEN I have been...
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The Conversation
Today I was at the library. They have a new section in the ‘Great Hall’ where they installed new modern seating (very inviting). It’s located across from the reference desk. There used to be the old...
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