Northwest Indiana Discussion

http://nwi.com/articles/2008/10/05/opinion/times_editorials/doc7a3552e2a7aa5c08862574d600766d32.txt

The Times is still wrong.

Everybody is going broke, how can we even think of the South Shore extension? We are so lucky it was tabled in the spring.

Why regurgitate it now?

Guess what the SS extension is going to do for Valpo and South Lake Co.????

The same thing the Bishop Ford Expy did for Dolton Riverdale Calumet City and South Holland

There will be a housing boom people will be moving away from lake county and the people being displaced for the Olympics will move in there also will be a lot more people fleeing the land of taxes and in my opinion the land on route 30 going east is prime for development.

Don't let the movers and the shakers fool you they are buying up parcels of land as we speak
for new subdivisions and are planning to have train stops built there.

There is going to be a major population shift coming and the current residents are going to be relocated they just don't know it yet.

I see Uncle Petey is still going to try and get us $500 million for the "Train to nowhere". Petey is still trying to top the $432 million "Bridge to nowhere". I laughed when he said that he was against Palin for that bridge, when he actually voted yes on the bill lol


I say let them build the south shore to Lowell.

Valpo doesn't need it. they have their V-Line and Valpo express to Chicago, so if they already have express service to Chicago via bus, why do they need a train?

Maybe the Olympics and SSE can be a WPA project.

I doubt Chicago will get the Olympics

They have way to many things to fix and no way can they get them all fixed by 2016(especially the airport issue)

Since Valpo has the buses, let Lowell have the train. Valpo isn't that far from the South Shore anyway - don't we provide a bus up there too?

Karen T

Cedar Lake land that would have been railway reverts to ag zoning

By Carrie Napoleon Post-Tribune correspondent November 26, 2011 12:04PM


CEDAR LAKE – Plans for a multi-use development along the proposed South Shore railway corridor have been derailed after years of inactivity and a change in land ownership.

Planners approved allowing the zoning for the proposed Union Station multi-use development that was expected to rise up around the west extension of the railway to revert back to agricultural.

Ian Nicolini, town administrator, said the zoning for the land was changed in 2007 to accommodate the planned mixed-use, mixed-density development. Plans called for a mix of residential, retail and commercial development centered around what was being proposed as the Union Station South Shore stop.

The recession and lack of forward momentum by the Northern Indiana Commuter Transportation District to extend the South Shore west helped to stall the project.

“This particular development does not appear to be moving forward,” Nicolini said.

The land has since changed hands and the plat has expired. Nicolini said the plat and zoning were married. The zoning was tied to the original owner, Captiva Development of Crown Point.

“In an effort to preserve the surrounding property values, I advise the zoning return to agricultural until a time that a viable development plan is presented,” Nicolini said.

Plan Commission member Greg Parker agreed. He said the zoning for the mixed used development was tied to that development and nontransferable.

“That (zoning) decision was made for that development,” Parker said.

Any new plan for development would have to start from scratch with the planning and zoning process.

This board is really getting under used I guess because we don't really have new blood weighing in. A few hours after I posted about the proposed rate increases based on Metra charging more I saw this thread but after I got in to it I see it's long out of sight and out of mind.

This just reminded me of how the powers that be found a way to silence the voice of the people by getting the Times boards closed. Because it was associated with the Times people would come read the views expressed. But anymore we have maybe 5 people under various names repeating pretty much the same thing over & over. We may technically have free speech but when people find ways to discourage access to free expression of debate in effect it is not really the intention of our Founding Fathers. People are lazy and aren't often likely to search for relevant topics over the internet. At least not in the monarchy of NWI land.

Just to correct you a bit. As we have come to realize the term liberals is too general. It's actually the progressive liberals that demand to do the thinking for you. And there's little liberal about the progressive agenda.

Also, it was only partly the deleting of posts that closed the boards. More importantly it was the threats of suits by a certain whacky professor, people in favor of shelling of tons of unaccountable cash on the Gary Airport, certain Crown Point loan projects supporters, and a few others who feared the light of scrutiny because it threatened their view of "progress." There's nothing worse than a progressive liberal who refuses to admit they are actually closet Marxists.

Now let's be fair. There's a few liberals that really are more live & let live. They just don't know any better when it comes to important issues. Sometimes you just can't let the minority dictate.