Comments on: What waits on the horizon? http://coastalsense.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/what-waits-on-the-horizon/ Musings on politics and the way things work (or don't) in coastal Georgia Wed, 20 Aug 2008 14:17:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Trackboy1 http://coastalsense.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/what-waits-on-the-horizon/#comment-8 Trackboy1 Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:31:26 +0000 http://coastalsense.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/what-waits-on-the-horizon/#comment-8 Best of luck with this. Great point: Every state, city & county building, along with all public school and state college buildings should of course be LEED certified. And for transportation, a train from ATL via Macon to Savannah (then to Jacksonville), not only helps the fast growing metro Southside get to ATL for work, it's a tourism boon, partly to the attractions in Macon, but especially to Savannah and the coast. Make it easy for travelers to fly into Hartsfield and enjoy Savannah and the coast with out needing a car, and you have yourself hundreds of millions in new tourism revenue. And trains from ATL via Athens to Augusta, and ATL to Chattanooga, ATL to Birmingham, etc., all make perfect sense. And if you talk to any good city or county planners, everything comes back to better planning & design (and zoning). Everything, whether the gas crunch, the drought, health, etc. Best of luck with this.

Great point: Every state, city & county building, along with all public school and state college buildings should of course be LEED certified.

And for transportation, a train from ATL via Macon to Savannah (then to Jacksonville), not only helps the fast growing metro Southside get to ATL for work, it’s a tourism boon, partly to the attractions in Macon, but especially to Savannah and the coast. Make it easy for travelers to fly into Hartsfield and enjoy Savannah and the coast with out needing a car, and you have yourself hundreds of millions in new tourism revenue. And trains from ATL via Athens to Augusta, and ATL to Chattanooga, ATL to Birmingham, etc., all make perfect sense.

And if you talk to any good city or county planners, everything comes back to better planning & design (and zoning). Everything, whether the gas crunch, the drought, health, etc.

]]> By: Sustainable Savannah http://coastalsense.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/what-waits-on-the-horizon/#comment-5 Sustainable Savannah Mon, 10 Dec 2007 12:17:19 +0000 http://coastalsense.wordpress.com/2007/12/09/what-waits-on-the-horizon/#comment-5 [...] his Coastal Sense blog, Clint Murphy links to a front page story from yesterday’s New York Times that reports [...] [...] his Coastal Sense blog, Clint Murphy links to a front page story from yesterday’s New York Times that reports [...]

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