Community Members

Right on, Doug!
btw, research has shown an abundant amount of cash at the Genesee Transportation Council. (GTC) Billions. This is money that can easily be use to facilitate development at the Amtrak station, or, at the IBM building of High Speed Rail! Think of it, inter-modal transporation in Rochester if we can neutralized Mark & Maggie! No more hub& spoke. Instead of wasting the money as Maggie & the GTC does, why not improve our mass transportation system in Rochester?

On November 3, you can write my name in for mayor so Mayor Duffy will hire me to lend some vision & creativity to development of downtown Rochester. But a must is a vote on Row 9E for Harry Davis for city council, Working Families Party line. I am not controled by dem $, repub $ or Frank Wirt Trade union $. Remember, in the long history of the AFL_CIO, it was the trades that were the conservative force. In the Viet Nam War era, it was the Trade Union hardhats who bashed Viet War protestors, physically!

read the letter from Frank Wirt on who stopped ren square:
http://www.box.net/shared/e5c0spt34o

Layoffs at Monroe Community Hospital (MCH)?
What, are you crazy?
I spent 9 months there!

Try this to ease the $$ deficit:

medical pot
http://www.harry2009.com/node/422

This February, the City Council passed Local Law 3, which allows City officials to obtain "inspection warrants" against YOUR house simply because you are not related to your landlord. Local law 3 allows the City to throw you in jail for "contempt of court" if you don't open the door to City inspectors with an "inspection warrant." If you don't think the City should be able to throw you in jail for asserting your constitutional right to privacy, don't vote for the City Council incumbents.

Mayor Duffy: “meeting is closed to the media and public”
1,000 fast ferries again!
http://harry2009.com/node/54

Mayor Duffy has ignored the will & common sense of the people of Rochester in the aftermath of ren square by not inviting Rochesters's own talent, i.e. Evan Lowenstein, Roger Brown & Joni Monoe to his developer's meeting to be held on Monday, August 18.

While I praise Mayor Duffy for eventually arriving at the correct outcome for ren square, without citizen participation right now, Mayor Duffy risks the same fate as Maggie Brooks and her 1,000 fast ferries at Main & Clinton.

We must anticipate the money that will probably be soon coming from President Obama's High Speed Rail stimulus money ($8 billion) and plan for smart development that includes an inter-modal transportation depot at the Amtrak station with a high speed rail from Albany to Buffalo stopping in Rochester.

High speed rail is the biggest economic development for upstate New York in 150 years, since the Erie Canal.

The whole city must be involved in planning our future if Mayor Duffy wants to avoid another reincarnatition of 1,000 fast ferries. Say no to a meeting of hand picked "developers". Say yes to a city wide charette.

Correction:
sorry for the typos...

We must also incorporate the beautiful, almost unnoticed Falls Fields on the east side of the river. This view actually almost rivals Niagara Falls in beauty.

A city wide charrette as I have been proposing with Evan Lowenstein & others is needed. Why is Mayor Duffy ignoring us with his August 17 meeting of 'developers'?

Didn't he learn anything from ren square?

The fact that ren square is dead is good. The process stunk and it needed to be put out of our misery. Now we must begin to deal with the politics of what is next. Neil Bauman is not happy. I am not happy. Neil feels he cannot build on his property at Main & Clinton without the MCC student base. Neil was not pleased with the behavior of city council. Tony Dimarzo is not happy with the prospect of bus fumes filling his new Warner Lofts.

We must all come together soon to figure out: 1) The politics of our current situation. 2) We must consider what is the best way to bring Rochester into the 21st Century with a state-of-the-art, green, LEED certified, comprehensive development for downtown that we all will feel is our "place". Moving a bus garage 30 feet north and making it 20 feet shorter is not the way to develop a city. We must build on our history & current needs. We can romance the wonderful past Rochester once had, the RKO, a junior Grand Central station for our train depot, but we must use our young people now with their honed skills to build a better tomorow. I strongly think we need all of our transportation based at the current Amtrak station, an inter-modal design, with a high speed rail stopping in Rochester on it's way to Buffalo or Albany or NYC.

Specifically, on my web site, Harry 2009, I posted a letter I wrote to Mayor Duffy in May. The Mayor called on city council to hire a consultant & I feel we must use the talents of local experts such as Evan Lowenstein, Roger Brown, Heidi, Joni Monroe and my pick, Bill Reed to hold a city wide charette with everybody's input to help figure out the politics and the green, sustainablity prospects of what we build, if we can build anything at this point.

It must be "Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design" (LEED) certified. http://tiny.cc/WVntG Bill Reed is a longtime associate of mine who helped create the LEED principals back in the mid-1990's. He is currently at work in Dubai.

I want to bring my life long high school friend Don Jeffries of the Rochester Broadway Theatre League (RBTL) in to lend his input. Just this past weekend, Don & I were together again for our high school reunion. If we can get together in mutual support, then the rest of Rochester should be able to come together.

I also think it is time for a CHANGE in the make-up of our current city council.

High speed rail is the biggest economic development for upstate New York in 150 years, since the Erie Canal.

Mr. ITALO SAVELLA of GREECE should list his academic qualifications if he wants to go after Dr. Noble, a world-wide leader for in his field of CNS discovery for decades.

He says: "Embryonic stem-cell research is NOT illegal." Right, but what are you going to do if there is no money for it, as Bush did? Try to rent an apartment with no money and see how far you get. Same difference.

Uof R welfare queen for research? Give a break. Stem cell research favoring abortion arguement?

I wonder why City Newspaper prints this dribble so freely and yet edits some of my comments so quickly?

I am NOT happy. I remember the RKO Theatre. I remember my Father taking me to Midtown Plaza to see Duke Ellington play beneath the clock. I remember a REAL transit system in Rochester that included a subway as well as the Lehigh Railroad. I remember the beautiful train station that reminds us of Grand Central Station in New York City. Let's restore Rochester to the great city she once was.