[FRIAM] NO LANL IN SANTA FE! Wednesday, 12; 00 outside SF City Hall; bring friends

[Frank Wimberly]

Interesting, Glen.  In Pittsburgh we lived in a neighborhood that appealed
to me more than any other I have ever lived in.

One block to the east of our house was the frick mansion and The Frick
museum the former was a 22 room four story Victorian monstrosity which was
nonetheless interesting to your.  The museum was a beautiful Italian
Renaissance with exhibitions of world class paintings. The two buildings
were on an entire city block (5 acres).

Between our house and the Frick were a row of expensive homes of various
styles built in the forties(?).  Our street was a cul-de-sac which had been
the driveway of Andrew Carnegie's grand house but currently with mid-priced
homes.  One block to the west was a street with a mixture ranging from old
homes used as apartments for students and young professionals to million
dollar contemporary homes.  At the end of our street were a small grocery
store that had been there forever, a barber shop, an independent auto
repair shop, and an old school which had been an elementary school but was
used for a charter school.

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On Wed, Jan 15, 2020, 11:02 AM uǝlƃ ☣ <gepropella at gmail.com> wrote:

> One example of the fine-grained downward feedbacks that can be installed
> is mixed-income residential requirements. Many people where we used to live
> complained that the people on the "other end of the street" didn't "show
> pride of ownership". To translate from Modern Suburban, they didn't have
> well-manicured grass lawns, the paint on their house is peeling, or they
> have too many cars ... whatever made that property look bad to them,
> basically.
>
> But what I saw was different socio-economic strata. I *enjoyed* living
> near that 90 year old who decorated his yard with old broken tile (I could
> stare at his designs for hours [†]) and the 20 year old high school dropout
> who's trying to make a living playing in a death metal band while he works
> 2 jobs as barista and bartender. My other neighbors did not *enjoy* living
> next to those people. It's not clear to me _why_.
>
> I don't think it's a matter of getting out of the house after your day job
> ... because I almost never do anything after I quit for the day, either.
> There's something else going on ... something aesthetic. My persnickety
> neighbors have some need for regularity that the rest of us don't have ...
> like they want their "jigsaw" puzzles to have all square pieces or
> something.
>
> [†] He died about a year ago and the property's now occupied by people who
> "fit in" much better. [sigh] All the tile is gone. There's a new shed, new
> driveway occupied by a Prius and a Toyota pickup, ... Ugh. Homogeneity
> reigns.
>
> On 1/15/20 9:30 AM, Marcus Daniels wrote:
> > Before brainstorming about how to integrate LANL, etc. into the St.
> Michael / Cerrillos area, it might be worth asking why the town of Los
> Alamos is so abysmal.   Los Alamos county has one of the highest per capita
> incomes in the country, and yet there is not a thing to spend money on up
> there besides real estate.   One reason I've heard is that the folks that
> own the lots in the town find it more profitable to hold on to them and
> rent to the lab when the need arises.   Thus there is no way to build
> anything.   Another is that it is a family town, and oddly enough not a
> town that facilitates workism -- people more-or-less work 9 to 5 and then
> hang out at home, and want to.   Or on the weekends they ski or hike.   Its
> always been astonishing to me that there aren't more restaurants.   The
> only conventional sign of progress is the big Smiths facility.
>
> --
> ☣ uǝlƃ
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