Dowtown Revitalization Video

[Waterbuffalo]

Thought I should post a link here for this Video.

Its two hours long 90 minutes of people talking about Alcohol Impact Zone, C-tran's plans for 7th Street and west side of Clark County its serving, the Gramor site and RiverWest (Yes Chief, watch this VIDEO! For those two sections.)

Then finally the 1st Thursday chat has an interesting 30 minute Q and A.

Chief and to others, I might start going to these events.. Seem to be popular and interesting from the last four or five I have watched.

http://www.cityofvancouver.us/cvtv/cvtvindex.asp?catID=999&fileID=8552

[Chief]

I don't usually attend the workshope, because they are easily viewed on CVTV, and there is absolutely no opportunity for public comment; these workshops are informational sessions for the Council only, and I think it is generally a better use of my time to wait for the CVTV presentation...

That said, it's always good to have the links handy to these videos...

[tefen]

I don't think this is the City Council presentation Chief. This is a 'First Tuesday Event'? Something to do with planning, the city council isn't even there.


Skip to Gerald Baugh about an hour in... that's where it gets interesting. It talks about the city's involvement in the Riverwest project, and then ... at an hour and fifteen minutes he talks about how important the Port's rail project is. Of course, he looks at it as clearing the Boise site for development, but he does give a glowing review of the potential of the BNSF railway. Including mentioning that the Vancouver switchyard is currently "as busy as the one in Chicago."

[Chief]

I stand corrected....some very interesting coments indeed. I know Gerald Baugh "gets it", it's too bad "Rolls" Royce doesn't...

[Waterbuffalo]

thanks tefen.. This is basically what I meant the video for.. Just an education of what is going on down there and gives some nice details that seems to fail to come across the local papers editions.

I don't want to know the mayor's big picture on any subject most of the time.. I want details, how things are going to work, chronology of how things are going to go and costs of what is going to happen during, before and final costs.

Might call it minutia or details that lack a lot of things that come across from city officials over the past 5 or 10 years, that a number of us want Call it "Process with details that are sorely lacking.."

Big picture ideas don't show any thing, but a general idea of what that person thinks... Its the devils in the details.