Text 24564, 73 rader
Skriven 2006-11-07 10:49:27 av Mimi Gallandt (1:123/789.0)
  Kommentar till text 24541 av John Hull (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Jackson
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John Hull -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 JH> Mimi Gallandt -> Stan Hardegree wrote:
 MG>> Stan Hardegree -> Mimi Gallandt wrote:
 SH>>>> I was on the top of Tank Hill for the first time in 31 years over
 JH> the
 SH>>>> weekend.  You wouldn't recognize it.

 MG>>>> What's Tank Hill and why do they call it that?

 SH>>> Tank Hill is where many of us took basic training at Fort Jackson.
 MG>> It is so
 SH>>> named because there is a large water tank at the top of the hill.
 MG>> There
 SH>>> are
 SH>>> two water tanks there now, and all the ole WWII barracks are gone.

 MG>> I hate it when they tear down buildings just because they're old.
 JH> About
 MG>> 6 months ago they torn down the Hotel San Diego that was built in the
 MG>> 40s. Yeah, it had fallen into disrepair, but nowhere near as badly as
 MG>> the buildings in the Gaslamp district had and the CCDC (Center City
 MG>> Development Corporation)saved those buildings. For many years the
 MG>> downtown branch of the SD library has needed more space, the city has
 MG>> finally agreed to build them a new, larger building and while I
 MG>> intellectually know and understand the needs I'm very worried that the
 MG>> CCDC will decide they can make more money by tearing the "old" one
 MG>> (opened in 1959) down than they can by leasing it out. I'm not really
 MG>> sure how the CCDC managed to get so much power over the downtown
 MG>> district of San Diego. You may be able to tell that I'm not one of
 JH> their
 MG>> fans.

 JH> Hotel San Diego has been on borrowed time for at least two decades. They
 JH> were arguing about whether to tear it down or remodel it back in the
 JH> late 70's when I was still out there.  Situated the way it was, it
 JH> would've been a bear to remodel, and very expensive.  It's doubtful that
 JH> it would've been able to compete with the newer high tech waterfront
 JH> hotels south of Navy Pier.

 JH> CDCC is the outgrowth of the old controlled growth program that was
 JH> implemented under Pete Wilson tenure as mayor.  Everybody bitched about
 JH> it but it was a good thing because it kept the lid on the explosive
 JH> growth that has ruined many other cities.  After Pete was gone, Maureen
 JH> O'Connor got in there and everything went to hell.  Roger Hedgecock got
 JH> things back on track, but by then I was out of there.

You should see downtown today, the skyline looks like they're trying to
duplicate Manhattan. They've built all these multi-million dollar condos down
there and they just keep growing taller. These folks who buy these condos
apparently never noticed all the train tracks in downtown and are now pitching
fits about the train noise. This same kind of people move in next to airports
and then bitch because the planes are loud. Yes, the freight, Am Track and
coasters are loud, they have really big diesel engines, but the trolleys are
electric and virtually silent. Federal laws dictate that trains must sound
their horns at crossings, those trains with diesel engines' horns are very
loud, but the trolleys' aren't loud at all but they bitch about the trolleys
too. Needless to say I'm not a fan of these whiners who want to force the
trains to break federal law by not sounding their horns. The lesson here? If
you don't like noise don't move near a train yard.


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Mimi

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