It would be great to take one city street and turn it into a pedestrian corridor and see what kind of effect it has on the businesses in that area - It's the future I think.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There's been a big spur in downtown development with new business, restaurants and a lot of loft buying. The buses run, and there's a subway that runs through downtown.
For my part, I plan to work out a fair and adequate redistribution of city services to all city neighborhoods.
All roads lead to Wall Street, but we feel the effects of Wall Street on every street corner. Certainly in Syracuse, N.Y., where I live.
I'm hoping there'll be, if not a boom, then a big pick-up in housing because if that happens, then it will employ a lot of people, and the domino effect will go through the community, and it will help everyone.
Companies operating in urban communities have a tremendous ripple effect.
Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.
Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
I hope that Los Altos is one of the first cities to have self-driving cars, and if that's true, well, awesome, because there's a lot of parking lots that we could get rid of and use for parks. That would be amazing!
We need to focus on the speed with which local governments can work with businesses.
We ought to be doing that with decent standard housing but if we have people who are absolutely on the streets in this case, I think it makes sense that tent cities are preferred to not having tent cities.
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