{"id":1139,"date":"2007-10-25T02:27:34","date_gmt":"2007-10-25T06:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2007\/10\/25\/abandoned-homes-beyond-the-city-line\/"},"modified":"2007-10-25T02:40:59","modified_gmt":"2007-10-25T06:40:59","slug":"abandoned-homes-beyond-the-city-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/2007\/10\/abandoned-homes-beyond-the-city-line\/","title":{"rendered":"Abandoned homes beyond the city line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"325\" height=\"255\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/TWGxUXSqMuw&rel=1\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Tonight I was uploading a video to YouTube and stumbled across this from someone in Cheektowaga\u2026when I watched, I could only think of B-F\u2026this is what the B-F neighborhood looked like 10-15-20 years ago\u2026a few vacant and abandoned properties here or there\u2026do you think anyone at that time would have thought the problem would escalate to the degree in which it has\u2026probably not\u2026if anything, I think this video is a harbinger of things to come for inner-ring suburbs, other parts WNY and the city if Buffalo and region doesn\u2019t take a comprehensive approach to deal with a declining population base in relationship to its housing stock, suburban sprawl and growth\u2026a few weeks ago I was driving through Niagara County\u2026Wheatfield specifically\u2026and marveled at the new subdivisions going up\u2026I wondered about where the people were coming from to fill these new developments and what they were leaving behind\u2026in the inner-ring burbs, this problem is already starting to take root\u2026places like Amherst, Tonawanda, Kenmore and Cheektowaga are starting to see a rise in vacant properties\u2026are we as a region going to step up to the plate and deal with issues of smart growth or are we going to see the mistakes made repeat themselves throughout the area.<\/p>\n<p>A good place to start would be really start implementing plans like \u201cBlueprint Buffalo.\u201d It lays the groundwork to deal with these issues and is being being facilitated locally by LISC Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vacantproperties.org\/technical\/programs\/buffalo.html\">Check it out the plan here<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lisc.org\/buffalo\/programs\/growth_9633.shtml\">Check out LISC Buffalo here<\/a>\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I was uploading a video to YouTube and stumbled across this from someone in Cheektowaga\u2026when I watched, I could only think of B-F\u2026this is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1Wcy1-in","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadwayfillmorealive.org\/2.0\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}