Hmmmmm... sounds like you folks are going to have another "Downtown Revitalization" project on your hands....

That will make it... what... version 20.8 ???

Good luck with that.

:-)

Smart growth on the ground, eh ..... SGOG? SGOTG?

As opposed to smart growth in the air??? Smart growth underground?

Who thinks up this idiotic statements? Is this what our schools are teaching these days?

So we are going to take a 500 metre radius area of the city, which is quite energy efficient per square metre of built floor area when compared to a suburban region of similar built floor area, and increase its efficiency while we keep sprawling inot the suburbs .....

Now that is SMART!!!!!

Sounds like they will be using the same principles of improving air quality - stop idling cars and stop backyard fire pits - deal with the small stuff, rather than the major problem.

Its the old keep them busy on the small stuff and they will forget the big stuff theory at work.

;-(

No more dumb growth on the ground anymore?

Lotsa smoke from the ol' plywood plant a few weeks ago. How many have to ride bicycles now to compensate fer that? Did the plywood plant buy carbon credits because of all of that stinky polluting smoke? I hope so, in keeping with the program of course.

I would think the University could be involved in this project. It would be a good research project. Something positive is a possibility if UNBC is on the scene.

I think thst we have the University here is great. But just because the UNBC or any university is involved does not mean it is successful. There are a lot of "dumb" things tht happen out of the UNBC.

1. the sustainable landscape project is absolutely useless and a blight on the city.

2. the UNBC has been involved with the air quality studies here for 10 years .... still no resolution.

3. the UNBC dangerous goods study identified foothills as one of the corridors. The route is entiorely unsafe as it is and simply spreads the risk to other neighbourhoods.

4. There is a fellow looking at creating concrete blocks using beetle killed wood as an aggregate and suggesting it is the first time that is done. Beetle killed wood .. yes, but not wood residue as an aggregate, that is decades if not Centuries old. Ytong in Europe has been aroudn for half a century probably and can be cut with a hand saw, drilled with a standard drill and a nail driven through it.

So, I take University involvement one project at a time. Some can work well, others are duds. Remember, they do not have to deliver on time and on budget and to a quality suitable for the purpose intended. Their goal is to give newbees a chance to get their feet wet.

This City can't afford research for infrastructure improvement as far as I am concerned. We need applications experts, not research experts.

At the very least it could be a sociological research project as to why nothing gets done in Prince George?

Speaking of smart growth, has anyone heard from Mr. Ghiai lately?

Isn't it time for him to poke his head up out of his gopher hole and say 'erp erp - we're almost ready, we just need trades, we're almost ready, we just need trades - erp erp'?

You want to revitalize downtown 1st thing you have to do is get rid of the panhandlers and the street people. My wife used to have a busness downtown and had to leave because her cleints refused to come downtown. closing down the drugs and the liquor outlets would be a good first step. any thing else before that is a waste of time and money.

Yup, Downtown, City Hall, UNBC....its all nothing but a big joke. hahahaha

Yay! Another downtown revitalization project under a different name!

You got it right, downnotout. You want to revitalize downtown, get rid of the aggressive panhandlers and the intoxicated street people and there's a good start.

What a coincidence. A few months before our next civic election, that old dead horse called "downtown revitalization" is exhumed to be beaten again for a few months before it is buried again for four more years. That only leaves the theme called "tourism". How are we doing on that count? No more Walmart parking bans? That's good. We have no public campground anyway. Who needs one anyway? Fewer and fewer RVers due to our sky high gas prices.