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Old 09-12-2022, 02:34 PM
 
Location: Savannah
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This doesn't help our "threatened" status... Just more bad oversight from an MPC in disarray, and a city council that doesn't seem to care.

https://www.thesavannahian.com/a-mcm...on-every-lane/

I've done my share of lamenting the loss of our city's character in the name of recent development, but this takes things up a notch, and my worries grow.
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Old 09-12-2022, 10:00 PM
 
Location: Savannah
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When you have something unique, everyone wants to move there and turn it into everywhere else. : /
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Old 09-13-2022, 03:18 AM
 
Location: Savannah, GA
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The report that knocked Savannah’s status down was back in 2018. Nothing has changed.
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Old 09-13-2022, 08:32 AM
 
Location: Savannah
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Exactly what I was saying. How does stuff like this help things to change for the better?
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Old 09-13-2022, 10:39 AM
 
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The report that knocked Savannah’s status down was back in 2018. Nothing has changed.
Also, the report the NPR released cited buildings like the civic center and the MLK bridge, which were already planned or in place when the district became a national historic landmark district in 1966. Not sure why it took the NPR 52 years to come to that realisation.
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Old 09-13-2022, 11:30 AM
 
Location: Savannah
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I guess the gist of my OP was that not only are we not doing ourselves any favors, we don't seem to care, top to bottom. I suppose this thread helps to confirm that... It was nice while it lasted.
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Old 09-13-2022, 04:49 PM
 
Location: Coastal Georgia
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My feeling, as a yankee observer, is that nobody here wants to use information that has proven to work in other places. They want to reinvent the wheel....or just do nothing instead.
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Old 09-15-2022, 09:10 AM
 
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I guess the gist of my OP was that not only are we not doing ourselves any favors, we don't seem to care, top to bottom. I suppose this thread helps to confirm that... It was nice while it lasted.
I relocated from a place in the Hudson Valley that’s doing it’s best to erase historical homes. It was awful to watch. We successfully fought after a home was taken down from the 1800’s, a Stewart’s Shop(convenience store) from replacing it. The owners literally let the house fall apart. And now, there’s nothing but a deep hole that never was filled in. SO many historical homes had been lost from the late 50’s to 70’s for eye sore shopping malls that started to sit empty in recent years.

The integrity of the historic district should be maintained. I have no issue with something built that’s 2 stories and doesn’t compromise the square it’s in. And is of the same architecture for that neighborhood.

Unfortunately greed of developers and city members who don’t give a dang about keeping our city historical.
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Old 09-21-2022, 02:41 PM
 
Location: Atlanta Metro
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Can there not be a healthy balance of what is and isn't historic
Is Nola doing it wrong or something
At the end of the day- I feel like the bigger picture is the next generation
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Old 09-21-2022, 03:11 PM
 
Location: Free State of Florida
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Whomever pays the local politicians the most cash, gets to do what they please.

Who will pay them the most, voters or developers?

Forsyth Park will some day be a Wal Mart, or Amazon Warehouse. River Street will become gambling casino's, & strip centers.
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