Comments on: Can Oak Ridge adapt to the world of the future? http://ellensmith.org/blog/2007/12/30/can-oak-ridge-adapt-to-the-world-of-the-future/ I'm Ellen Smith, member of the Oak Ridge City Council. Thank you for visiting my blog and reading my views on public and private life in and around Oak Ridge, Tennessee. This website is my own; content here does not represent the official policies or views of the City of Oak Ridge. To add your own comments, click on the topic title to open a comment box. To read posts about a particular topic, scroll down to "Categories" (in the sidebar) or use the "Search" box in the sidebar. Look under "Archives" to see collections of past posts organized by date. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:38:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ray Kircher http://ellensmith.org/blog/2007/12/30/can-oak-ridge-adapt-to-the-world-of-the-future/comment-page-1/#comment-34586 Ray Kircher Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:49:15 +0000 http://ellensmith.org/blog/2007/12/30/can-oak-ridge-adapt-to-the-world-of-the-future/#comment-34586 Adapt? Is this something new? I have always heard it to be afford, but new council members mean new thinkers. Thank you for putting Oak Ridge in such a wonderful light that only an attitude change would help, but I believe as long as the few people who continue to offer TIFs to retail business without thinking of bringing well paying jobs with those TIF are putting Oak Ridge on a For Sale list to have only citizens cover the tabs of our escalating crime and traffic problem. Where is the citizen's break of taxes to having a safe city? Doesn't retail business believe safe cities are an asset? Adapt? Is this something new? I have always heard it to be afford, but new council members mean new thinkers.

Thank you for putting Oak Ridge in such a wonderful light that only an attitude change would help, but I believe as long as the few people who continue to offer TIFs to retail business without thinking of bringing well paying jobs with those TIF are putting Oak Ridge on a For Sale list to have only citizens cover the tabs of our escalating crime and traffic problem.

Where is the citizen’s break of taxes to having a safe city? Doesn’t retail business believe safe cities are an asset?

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