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Subject: [Leica] IMG Don's PAW week 9 mishmash, construction, barbershop, and 21SA vignetting
From: hewthompson at mac.com (Hugh Thompson)
Date: Mon Mar 5 10:04:11 2007
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Don & Robert - time for a good consultant from Canada, I am an Urban  
Planner - where's the contract?

Hugh

On 4-Mar-07, at 11:39 PM, Robert Meier wrote:

> Don -- I love your description of how and why Atlanta developed!   
> Drunken cow paths!   Great stuff.   Robert
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Don Dory" <don.dory@gmail.com>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug@leica-users.org>
> Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 9:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [Leica] IMG Don's PAW week 9 mishmash, construction,  
> barbershop, and 21SA vignetting
>
>
>> Robert,
>> If you are an intelligent or ambitious person in the South then  
>> there are
>> only a few places to go: greater D.C., Raleigh/Durham, Atlanta,  
>> Miami,
>> Nashville. So, Atlanta goes to almost 5 million but gets caught up  
>> in the
>> green guilt trip and doesn't build the infrastructure that exists  
>> in the
>> Northeast to support the population growth.  Also, Atlanta has not  
>> been
>> blessed by any leader with vision as it concerns city planning so  
>> you get
>> random growth that benefits developers with little thought about  
>> how it all
>> fits together.  D.C. had a master plan, Dallas has a master plan,  
>> Atlanta is
>> laid out on paths that drunken cows followed two hundred years ago.
>>
>> Don
>> don.dory@gmail.com
>>
>> On 3/4/07, Robert Meier <robertmeier@usjet.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> Don,
>>>
>>> My daughter lives in Alpharetta, and I have been down there  
>>> frequently,
>>> but
>>> I haven't driven around Atlanta for quite a while.   My  
>>> impression has
>>> always been that the whole Atlanta area is growing too fast;    
>>> that even
>>> though I75 is 8 lanes in each direction, it still gets clogged  
>>> every rush
>>> hour, and that suburbs have been built way too far from the  
>>> city.   I have
>>> never understood the attraction of Atlanta that has drawn so many  
>>> people
>>> --
>>> is it just jobs?
>>>
>>> Robert
>>>


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