Too Much, or Too Little? - First, I recognize my posts have been somewhat irregular lately. My home computer has been giving me fits, and having gotten it back from the repair shop last week it developed a new trick last night and wouldn't boot up at all. May be time for an upgrade... Along with that are a couple of unanswered questions, I will get to those in the next couple of days.

For today, I want to get to a question of my own. I hear a lot of comments about the pace things are happening downtown, and there is a very interesting dichotomy; on one hard, some folks are concerned about how quickly things are changing. On the other hand, many others are concerned that the economy will get away from us, and that redevelopment has to be taken as far as it can be while conditions are right. Connected to that side is the issue of getting projects that bring public parking to fruition as quickly as possible.

Of course many of the variables that control the timing of these things are not in the city's control - the aforementioned economy, for example, or the retirements of the Baby Boomers which will have a huge effect on us in the coming years. But in spite of that, my question is this: What do you think about the pace of things? Is it all just too much, too fast, or do you favor, if redevelopment is inevitable anyway, seeing as much done as possible while the iron is hot? There are no right or wrong answers of course, but I think this could be an interesting discussion. Please, make me right!