http://bloggingbelmont.com/2009/08/reburbia-reimagining-the-suburbs/ Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:14:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc http://bloggingbelmont.com/2009/08/reburbia-reimagining-the-suburbs/comment-page-1/#comment-703 pjlooney Wed, 26 Aug 2009 04:08:46 +0000 http://bloggingbelmont.com/?p=1874#comment-703 Paul,<br>What's the deal at the Santos (Burbank) playground? Seems like some nice improvements underway.<br>PJ Paul,
What's the deal at the Santos (Burbank) playground? Seems like some nice improvements underway.
PJ

]]> http://bloggingbelmont.com/2009/08/reburbia-reimagining-the-suburbs/comment-page-1/#comment-656 pjlooney Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:08:46 +0000 http://bloggingbelmont.com/?p=1874#comment-656 Paul,<br>What's the deal at the Santos (Burbank) playground? Seems like some nice improvements underway.<br>PJ Paul,
What's the deal at the Santos (Burbank) playground? Seems like some nice improvements underway.
PJ

]]> http://bloggingbelmont.com/2009/08/reburbia-reimagining-the-suburbs/comment-page-1/#comment-655 danleclerc Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:18:04 +0000 http://bloggingbelmont.com/?p=1874#comment-655 This is a terrific topic for Belmontians to be talking about. Because Belmont lies between sprawl driven exurbs and two vital urban areas (Cambridge & Boston) we have the good fortune not having the negatives of the former and the energy emanating from the latter. We are able to be a "walking community", a community that cares about its schools (building a new elementary school) a town that respects its history and cares for its senior citizens (just finished what will inevitably become an award-winning new senior center), a place with an increasingly more inclusive and vibrant town-meeting form of government, and also a community that's trying to rethink its future through a Comprehensive Planning process and the hopeful revitalization of Cushing Square, Waverly Square and the entrire Trapelo Road Corridor. The recent outpouring of concern over events such as the destruction of the Great Oak Tree on Van Ness Road, the tearing down of the Our Lady's Rectory and the concern about saving the Benton Branch Libray Building tells me that folks care about what happens to the "built-environment" here in Belmont. I just hope that we do not become divided by the struggle to properly allocated scarce revenues in the coming 12 to 18 months. In the meantime I applaud the inclusion of this article that I am respoding to as a way to stimulate conversation and creative thinking. This is a terrific topic for Belmontians to be talking about. Because Belmont lies between sprawl driven exurbs and two vital urban areas (Cambridge & Boston) we have the good fortune not having the negatives of the former and the energy emanating from the latter. We are able to be a “walking community”, a community that cares about its schools (building a new elementary school) a town that respects its history and cares for its senior citizens (just finished what will inevitably become an award-winning new senior center), a place with an increasingly more inclusive and vibrant town-meeting form of government, and also a community that's trying to rethink its future through a Comprehensive Planning process and the hopeful revitalization of Cushing Square, Waverly Square and the entrire Trapelo Road Corridor. The recent outpouring of concern over events such as the destruction of the Great Oak Tree on Van Ness Road, the tearing down of the Our Lady's Rectory and the concern about saving the Benton Branch Libray Building tells me that folks care about what happens to the “built-environment” here in Belmont. I just hope that we do not become divided by the struggle to properly allocated scarce revenues in the coming 12 to 18 months. In the meantime I applaud the inclusion of this article that I am respoding to as a way to stimulate conversation and creative thinking.

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