I couldn’t agree more with this letter writer today in the Gargoyle Leader;
It is my opinion a moratorium on the city-limit footprint is needed. There are several, sizeable areas of undeveloped land within the current city limits This moratorium should last as long as these areas remain undeveloped, or 25 years, whichever is greater. As these areas fill in, property values will rise. Older, dilapidated neighborhoods could be razed, and urban renewal could flourish.
I have been suggesting this kind of development for the past 6 years. We are letting our older (lower middle-class) neighborhoods go to hell while tearing up cornfields to build new hoods. It is foolish, and now with the downturn in the economy, construction companies are going to learn the hard way that fast and reckless growth will bite you in the arse.
Sioux Falls could be more livable if there was greater infrastructure for alternative modes of transportation.
While I am a big proponent of bike riding; 1) you can’t do it all year long here (well you can if you are completely nuts) and 2) You risk life and limb everytime you decide to ride on our city streets because there is no public awareness to bicyclists in SF.
Finish reading the letter, Mr. Pierson has tons of great ideas, it is just too bad they will fall on deaf ears at city hall. Sioux Falls was overdeveloped to make a select few special interests a lot of money, not to improve the livability of the city.