Comments on: C(ity)ounty http://www.harrisonburgsummits.com/2009/06/cityounty/ Hosted by the Fairfield Center (formerly Community Mediation Center) Thu, 28 Apr 2011 17:55:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Welby Lehman http://www.harrisonburgsummits.com/2009/06/cityounty/comment-page-1/#comment-52 Welby Lehman Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:43:25 +0000 http://www.harrisonburgsummits.com/?p=380#comment-52 Thanks Brent. I knew I had seen these before. The comments that most closely pertain to my post are from J.M. Snell, Kai Degner and Dave Wiens from the question on county cooperation. Of course everyone is for cooperation. The benefits of sharing infrastructure (creating efficiencies of staff, energy and money) are clear. I would argue that the most sustainable scenerio is that the majority of development occurs in the city (maximizing infrastructure efficiencies, minimizing transportation needs) and the county is preserved (for food production, recreation, etc). From my understanding, this isn't happening now because of the system we have. The county needs development for a revenue source(even though residential development in rural areas has been shown to not be financially beneficial). Can we get this sustainable scenario without changing the system? Can our cordial relationships be the impetus for regional planning and "smart growth"? Thanks Brent. I knew I had seen these before. The comments that most closely pertain to my post are from J.M. Snell, Kai Degner and Dave Wiens from the question on county cooperation. Of course everyone is for cooperation. The benefits of sharing infrastructure (creating efficiencies of staff, energy and money) are clear.

I would argue that the most sustainable scenerio is that the majority of development occurs in the city (maximizing infrastructure efficiencies, minimizing transportation needs) and the county is preserved (for food production, recreation, etc). From my understanding, this isn’t happening now because of the system we have. The county needs development for a revenue source(even though residential development in rural areas has been shown to not be financially beneficial). Can we get this sustainable scenario without changing the system? Can our cordial relationships be the impetus for regional planning and “smart growth”?

]]> By: Brent Finnegan http://www.harrisonburgsummits.com/2009/06/cityounty/comment-page-1/#comment-32 Brent Finnegan Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:56:40 +0000 http://www.harrisonburgsummits.com/?p=380#comment-32 These two hburgnews Q&A interviews might add some background info to the discussion: http://hburgnews.com/2008/10/20/council-candidates-on-county-cooperation/ http://hburgnews.com/2008/10/22/council-candidates-on-annexation/ These two hburgnews Q&A interviews might add some background info to the discussion:

http://hburgnews.com/2008/10/20/council-candidates-on-county-cooperation/
http://hburgnews.com/2008/10/22/council-candidates-on-annexation/

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