{"id":3567,"date":"2007-01-26T22:50:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-26T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=3567"},"modified":"2017-12-07T10:50:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-07T16:50:49","slug":"with-grating-power-comes-grab-for-more-grating-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2007\/01\/26\/with-grating-power-comes-grab-for-more-grating-power\/","title":{"rendered":"With Grating Power Comes Grab For More Grating Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/index.aspx?id=557433\" target=\"_new\">Greendale wants a say in Southridge&#8217;s future<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Greendale officials want to influence the changes in store for Southridge Mall &#8211; the village&#8217;s biggest taxpayer &#8211; as it comes under new ownership.<\/p>\n<p>The village is seeking proposals from two planning firms &#8211; HNTB Corp. and R.A. Smith and Associates Inc. &#8211; to develop its own vision for the mall&#8217;s future, Village Manager Joseph Murray said.<\/p>\n<p>Conversations have focused on whether the 110-acre complex, the largest shopping mall in the state, could support mixed-use development, whether housing could be part of that mix, and costs associated with various redevelopment plans, Village President John Hermes said. Talks have been in progress for several months.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>How come newspapers never ask the big question, <i>by what right does the government think it should exert influence in private business transactions?<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just as well; the answer would be <i><b>Might<\/b><\/i>, perhaps followed by a little inquisition against those who would challenge the ever-increasing authority.<\/p>\n<p><i>Don&#8217;t think we can?  No permits for you.<\/i><br \/>\n<i>Think we&#8217;re sliding totalitarian?  So, is this your car parked eighteen inches from the curb?  I think we&#8217;ll have to boot it.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>And so on, and so on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greendale wants a say in Southridge&#8217;s future: Greendale officials want to influence the changes in store for Southridge Mall &#8211; the village&#8217;s biggest taxpayer &#8211; as it comes under new ownership. The village is seeking proposals from two planning firms &#8211; HNTB Corp. and R.A. Smith and Associates Inc. &#8211; to develop its own vision [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3567"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18295,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3567\/revisions\/18295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}