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/ Sun, 06 Jul 2008 03:53:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Ray Kircher http://ellensmith.org/blog/2007/12/30/can-oak-ridge-adapt-to-the-world-of-the-future/#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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