Developers run amok in Fort Wayne
Posted by Mike Sylvester - 8/15/08 @ 3:00 am - Filed Under Featured, Local Politics
I have always been irritated by the fact that local “Developers” have been able to get pretty much any “Development” they wanted approved fairly easily by local Government.
“Developers” only lose when a huge number of citizens get upset and that very rarely happens.
Today’s headline in the News-Sentinel makes my blood boil. “Developer suing 3 for Canyon Cliffs votes.”
Give me a break.
“Developers” have long had their way in Fort Wayne and Allen County and pretty much every body of Government has bent over backwards to accommodate every “Developer” in the name of construction and progress.
This has resulted in Fort Wayne being a sprawling City with expensive City services due to the sprawl.
If we are going to continue to poor money into Downtown Fort Wayne then we absolutely must limit “Development” on the edges of Fort Wayne.
I am absolutely appalled that “Developers” are going to sue three planning commission members and the Planning Commission itself over their votes concerning Canyon Cliffs.
Give me a break…
I wish that the ENTIRE Canyon Cliff’s Project had been killed and I feel that the ”Minor Plat Ordinance” needs some serious revision because if it is interpreted the way the “Developers” and their lawyers interpret it we might as well do completely away with the Planning Commission.
Mike Sylvester
P.S. This is an issue that YLNI and the supporters of Harrison Square should get involved in. Harrison Square and similar projects are doomed to fail if the City of Fort Wayne continues to grow in an uncontrolled and haphazard fashion.
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HS is doomed to fail anyway. If the city doesn’t want to provide expensive services to outlying areas, it needs to stop annexing those areas. It’s my understanding that the developers push for annexation in order to get sewer and city water. The city should stop accommodating them. If they want to build in the middle of nowhere, it’s none of the city’s business but the city should not have to provide services.
Here we are Private vs Public dolars… concern of Property developers:
News Flash!
It’s been known for some time a new Regional Ice Facility may be built near Glenbrook.
RCI (Martin Goldstine Knapke recently added
a new company…RCI Development.)
Todd Ramsey, a partner at Martin Goldstine Knapke’s RCI Development division is looking for Ice management rights. Mayor Henry’s brother is working to help finalize the rest of this Regional Ice investment.
Canada-based Canlan Ice Sports is looking to invest here in Fort Wayne. The lease, Ramsey said, assures the facility’s financial viability –if Ramsey can just find the money needed to build the rest of it.
You would think a private dollars ice facility could be a success… kind of like the Plex makes it with soccer and Spiece on basketball.
Still its often underestimated how hard it is to make a sports facility succeed… specifically indoor facilities and the expense of utilities, amongst other things.
Actually, change can be forced and should be sometimes (World Wars, dirty rivers, etc…). I meant “trying to force too much change”.
guess what happens with Republican/Libertarian ideology…surprise surprise