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	<description>By Bill Lofquist</description>
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		<title>Memo to the Livingston County Planning Board</title>
		<link>http://preserving.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/memo-to-the-livingston-county-planning-board/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 10:48:41 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Geneseo]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[RE: Gateway Town Center proposal FROM: Bill Lofquist and Corrin Strong, for Please Don&#8217;t Destroy Geneseo DATE: June 11, 2008 The Gateway Town Center (GTC) project, a large-scale retail development proposed for the Gateway District in the Town of Geneseo, &#8230; <a href="http://preserving.wordpress.com/2008/06/12/memo-to-the-livingston-county-planning-board/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preserving.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1048723&amp;post=70&amp;subd=preserving&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To the Table, Reluctantly</title>
		<link>http://preserving.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/to-the-table-reluctantly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 14:48:28 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Big Boxes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t like the Gateway Town Center proposal. I don’t like anything about it. I don’t think we need another big box and we surely don’t need another pharmacy. I don’t like the effects a Lowe’s will have on locally-owned &#8230; <a href="http://preserving.wordpress.com/2008/05/14/to-the-table-reluctantly/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preserving.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1048723&amp;post=69&amp;subd=preserving&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The End of an Era</title>
		<link>http://preserving.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/the-end-of-an-era/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 16:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With the exception of a seven-year period beginning in 1979, the inflation-adjusted price of a gallon of gas was never higher than $1.60 from 1950 to 2003. As recently as 1998, a gallon of gas cost $1.10, the lowest inflation &#8230; <a href="http://preserving.wordpress.com/2008/05/01/the-end-of-an-era/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preserving.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1048723&amp;post=67&amp;subd=preserving&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Never Mind</title>
		<link>http://preserving.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/never-mind/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Back in the day, when Newman was new to town, energy levels were higher, and it was still possible to believe that it wasn’t a done deal, the Town Planning Board set a pretty high bar for the review of &#8230; <a href="http://preserving.wordpress.com/2008/04/24/never-mind/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preserving.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1048723&amp;post=66&amp;subd=preserving&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Decision Day Approaches</title>
		<link>http://preserving.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/decision-day-approaches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 13:46:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Town Planning Board’s recent determination that Newman Development has provided all the information it needs to evaluate the impacts of Newman’s big box plans represents a big step toward the biggest step in this long saga. Now the board &#8230; <a href="http://preserving.wordpress.com/2008/04/17/decision-day-approaches/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preserving.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1048723&amp;post=65&amp;subd=preserving&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Magical Thinking</title>
		<link>http://preserving.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/magical-thinking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 11:56:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billlofquist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friend and fellow traveler Jim Allen uses the term “magical thinking” to refer to that special brand of nonsense in which benefits come without costs, growth goes on forever, and every meal is a free lunch. I really like the &#8230; <a href="http://preserving.wordpress.com/2008/04/03/magical-thinking/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preserving.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1048723&amp;post=64&amp;subd=preserving&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Full Value of Main Street</title>
		<link>http://preserving.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/the-full-value-of-main-street/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Mar 2008 15:37:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billlofquist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Business section of last Sunday’s (March 23) Democrat &#38; Chronicle included a front page article on the problems faced by Main Street businesses in a retail economy dominated by Big Boxes and other chains. I was pleased to see &#8230; <a href="http://preserving.wordpress.com/2008/03/27/the-full-value-of-main-street/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preserving.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1048723&amp;post=63&amp;subd=preserving&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Lesson #1</title>
		<link>http://preserving.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/lesson-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:21:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billlofquist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As PDDG’s point people, Corrin and I try to keep our readers informed about the status of Newman Development’s PDD application and what we’re doing to try to defeat this proposal. Because we’re having more than the usual amount of &#8230; <a href="http://preserving.wordpress.com/2008/03/21/lesson-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preserving.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1048723&amp;post=62&amp;subd=preserving&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Goldilocks and the Two Bears</title>
		<link>http://preserving.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/goldilocks-and-the-two-bears/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2008 12:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billlofquist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are at least 92 Wal-Mart’s and 51 Lowe’s in New York State. Yet, as far as I have been able to determine, there are only three communities similar in size and circumstances to Geneseo which host both of these &#8230; <a href="http://preserving.wordpress.com/2008/03/12/goldilocks-and-the-two-bears/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preserving.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1048723&amp;post=61&amp;subd=preserving&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Phase One?</title>
		<link>http://preserving.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/phase-one/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 21:07:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>billlofquist</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Newman Development Group’s plans for a big box retail development in the Gateway were first unveiled in March 2005, those plans included a Lowe’s, a pharmacy, and six to eight other medium and small-sized chain retail boxes. Each store &#8230; <a href="http://preserving.wordpress.com/2008/03/05/phase-one/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=preserving.wordpress.com&amp;blog=1048723&amp;post=59&amp;subd=preserving&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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