Detroit Considering Demolishing 139 square miles
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why does this require millions of dollars to accomplish? just burn the old neighborhoods to the ground. let nature slowly reclaim it. as far as people wanting to live out in the condemned area, well let them. just let them know they wont be receiving police, fire, paving, water or sewage services. in fact dont even burn places down. just advertise that anyone can come in and take whatever they want- bricks, lumper, pipes etc. then when they get done they have to burn the home to the ground. sounds pretty simple.
if it is anything like bmore, those blighted neighborhoods are already burned out and falling in on themselves. why spend a whole lot of effort on finishing the process? cap the sewer lines and redraw the city line. anyone outside of that line doesnt receive city services. help relocate people but other than that if people want to stay where they are then tell them they are sol.
Oh, I agree. It sounds like they definitely need to rid themselves of the blight. My point was that they can't just start burning stuff, there are private property rights and stuff that have to be considered first, but I see what you are getting at. There is no reason to expend a ton of capital on it.
Columbus GA did something similar years ago. They went through all the blighted areas and selected whole blocks and communities of run down housing areas. They gave the owners a certain number of days to fix the houses or they were going to be demolished. Of course no one wanted to spend a lot of money fixing those houses because the occupants were just going to tear them up again. So the city spent months and years tearing down these old houses.
It looked real nice for a long time, with all those old eyesores gone and newer homes built in their place.
Now it's years later, and they're wondering if they are going to have to do it again.
It looked real nice for a long time, with all those old eyesores gone and newer homes built in their place.
Now it's years later, and they're wondering if they are going to have to do it again.
I've been to Detroit many times. They should consider mowing the whole place down!
Seriously...if you drive through there (I don't recommend it) many of those neighborhoods are already gone. I've never seen block after block after block of boarded-up, burned out houses in my life. It's a truly sad sight.
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Seriously...if you drive through there (I don't recommend it) many of those neighborhoods are already gone. I've never seen block after block after block of boarded-up, burned out houses in my life. It's a truly sad sight.
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Like you, after many trips to the Detroit area, it is a disgusting sight. Many cities have areas that are in disrepair, but Detroit has miles of boarded up homes and businesses. Without crime and drugs, it would be a ghost town.
If they can't get the legal backing to do this in a post-Katrina New Orleans, I don't see it happening in Detroit...
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