So many great ideas sound so simple, so obvious after
development and actualization, right?
Velcro. Tupperware. The cheeseburger. Buying a condo in
Manhattan's West Village in 1987.
Our sardonic and wonderfully observant friends at The Onion think
urban redevelopment, or infill, is no exception. In this
piece, available here, The Onion writes about how
"Mayor Hits On Crazy Idea of Developing City's Waterfront,
Green Spaces". From the piece:
Though the proposal [to convert unused and blighted lakefront into a family- and business-friendly hub] has received cautious support, city council president Melvin Witherspoon told reporters that the mayor's idea to open the refurbished waterfront with a weekend-long street festival was 'the unhinged ranting of a madman'.
What's especially fun for us at the Land Use Litigator is
that this gem indicates the Monday-morning brilliance of and
consensus behind the actualization of urban revitalization.
In other words, land use is now in the parody mainstream.
Reinvention, evolution and innovation is still occurring, and
urban living is becoming so desirable as to appear to have been
painfully obvious along the way.
Man, I can't wait for the inevitable Saturday Night Live skit
about wetland mitigation.
Thanks to our friend Professor John Infranca @JohnInfranca for alerting us to this lighthearted but consequential little piece.
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