| Changing Skyline: Thanks - but no thanks
But instead, the city told the young developers it was committed to preserving their junk-strewn, half-acre lots in the event an industrial user came along. "You get the feeling," Nebel later grumbled to me, "that cities are the worst redliners." The surprise here isn't that Philadelphia believes it should set aside land for industry. Even though we're deep into the post-manufacturing age, every city needs places where fabricators, warehouses, truck depots, junkyards and other messy enterprises can feel at ease. But this enclave claimed by the Kensington South Neighborhood Advisory Council is a place that abounds with vacant tracts. You can hardly walk a couple of blocks without bumping into one of the great redbrick relics of Philadelphia's industrial heyday, like the Rieger & Gretz brewery on Germantown Avenue.
Park Place challenges plant
Jerry Moore, who represents this part of Barrie, says the city is only named in the court action because it involves a municipal bylaw. “I believe Park Place's concerns are the same ones as residents' concerns," he said. “They are going to do whatever they can to protect themselves from unwanted nuisances." Barrie residents have raised concerns about smell and noise, traffic, pollution and safety in connection with the proposed ethanol plant. Park Place is to be a huge retail, industrial and business park development on the former Molson Park lands. But right beside it, on the former Molson brewery site, Northern Ethanol wants to build a plant to produce more than 400 million litres of ethanol annually, making it one of Canada's largest. In late November, city council passed an interim control bylaw to prohibit ethanol production on Barrie's industrial lands, including the former Molson brewery, for one year.
Hillary Stuns--Four Theories
But that's the direction, no? ... 7:44 P.M. I realized what's wrong with celebrated L.A. Times auto columnist Dan Neil when I came to the point in a recent road test where he describes the Scion tC--a depressing mash of mainstream design cliches, the Maison de La Casa House of cars--as "beautifully styled." Decide for yourself. Or take it from me: he has schlocky taste. ... 3:31 P.M. The Strange Case of the Diamond Dildo: It's just like porn-centric lone L..A. blogger Luke Ford, writing about new arrival David Beckham, to recklessly report: .
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