The Tri-County Regional Planning Commission announced on 10/14/10 that they had received an $1.2 million grant to be used to plan for economic, housing, food, social and cultural sustainability. The Tri-County folks say this money will be used to expand the scope of sustainability planning in this region and to begin implementing recommendations from The Big Plan completed about a month ago. (I doubt that then news medias have fully explained to the taxpayer exactly what The Big Plan is??)
Commission Chairman Mike Phelan say "Many of the things we can do to strengthen and enhance our communities, our neighborhoods and our economy require region approaches. For example, poorly planned development in rural and suburban areas not only stresses government budgets in providing service to those developments, it saps vitality out of our older neighborhoods. (I ask if this might not be a slap to the City of Peoria for pushing development in the growth cells which require expanded service from the already short funded security forces, the highway department, the planning department and health dept., etc.?) The fact that we are closing schools just a short distance from where we now need to build new schools (I ask is this a slap at the confused folks at #150, is this confusion that prompted Parker and Stowell to seek positions on the County Board and City Council?) is a strong indication that there are things we can do to make better use of our financial resources if we are willing to do the hard work involved with long range planning. We can do better than we have in the past...........etc."
All I can say is follow the money and see what gets implemented. From past history, few people do "follow the money".
Hmm.
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