When you play simcity, if you havent, you should..youfind that when you zone large areas of land Residential, the area begin to populate.. then become vacant.. familes move out and your simcity begins to loose money. In the games strategy it tells you "Try building more commercial an industrial zones" Once these commercial areas are placed (and the game recommends you build parks at the same time as to not ruin the inherent beauty of your city. Once these zones are in place you begin to see your citys account move out of the red, residential areas begin to raise in value.
The real world algorithm is not too far off. For all those who commute to other cities to work, not that 28 pounds of carbon dioxide is let off per gallon of gas consumed. How wonderfull would it be to be able to look for work in our backyard? how wonderful would it be to have our tax burden spread so that living in our city is affordable.
Any new commercial building in teaneck will help spread the tax burden,even if just 5$ for the average house. But the long term gains are simply outstanding, we need to encourage our leadership to locate decent land to place our Teaneck businesses while ensuring our open space requirements are enforced.
There is no silver bullet, but with a council armed like ours, im certain we will enjoy the math of -5 -5 -5 -5 -5 -5...
By: IamTeaneck | Thursday, August 23, 2007 at 1:17 PM | | 
The Monday morning quarterback passes judgement states with perfect clarity and with a sense of superiority from a position of hindsight
We all have a tendency to play this role and make statements like “ What they should have done was…” or “If I was in charge., I would have..” but really what good to these statements do being that the outcome has already occurred, other then boast our 20/20 hindsight.
If I were to play Teaneck quarterback I would start like this “well if i was in Teaneck’s leadership first thing I would have done is try to find some other means of generating revenue to remove the burden from little ma and pa, then I would look to shave off some fat from the township to reduce waste, I would open every book and every account to ensure that when I sent any increase of taxes, that I could say, I have done everything to ensure that not one dollar of your taxes is being thrown out.
I would work on making Teaneck’s retail spots a hotspot ,drawing shoppers from other areas , I would create and maintain open areas to allow our population to enjoy outdoors and nature. I would promote our cities diversity and encourage our strong identities to be celebrated not simply tolerated. I would do all this not because I want to leave my mark,but because I live here. Because I eat here, because people are depending on me to make this place better then I left.
Now you might think that I play decent quarterback but its actually stating the accomplishments of our council to date. I was never good in sports,…
I take pride in hearing all the accomplishments the entire council have achieved, I take pride in watching the majority of this diverse city unite over their leadership..
My sense of pride is marred by those who we define as the opposition or ‘those that play quarterback for an entirely different reason.”
This purpose is more sinister and serves an agenda other then benefiting our city. We have an element within our diverse community that wish to use their perfect hindsight along with a touch of misrepresenting others intentions, with a sprinkle of subterfuge in order to create the perfect blame cake in which to serve to those in support of our leadership. The tactic simple, divide and conquer.
Manifest a feeling amongst Teaneck’s diverse population that if you’re not an orthodox jew, your interests are not being represented.
Create a feeling of Us vs Them by utilizing fantastic events reminiscent of the protocols of elders.
All of this in order to set the bed for next election. The agenda is cheap, the agenda is loaded. I feel angered not simply at the attempt, but at what we will all Monday morning quarterback and say to these people, you have divided our community you have slowed our progress ,you have utilized prejudice simply out of spite of our current leadership.
We must enable our council, we must support the tax cutting and creative thinking, we must continue to reject those that wish to divide us, by drawing lines in the sand. We are Teaneck, we deserve progress, we deserve fiscal responsibility.. we deserve not to be caught up in TNB’s devious agenda . We deserve to be proud.
By: IamTeaneck | Tuesday, August 21, 2007 at 9:23 PM | |
