tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post6478425052980027798..comments2023-10-21T03:07:18.017-05:00Comments on Enclave: Speaking of MAC: If My Neighbors Want Their Backs Scratched, They Better Be Willing to Scratch MineS-townMikehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05948307051485318061noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-88432010905177213812007-08-11T13:27:00.000-05:002007-08-11T13:27:00.000-05:00It's not that MAC doesn't belong in the neighborho...It's not that MAC doesn't belong in the neighborhood. It is that urban neighborhoods shoulder an unfair bulk of the social services (both public and private) compared to other neighborhoods. I don't think that any one neighborhood should be required to host MAC--which brings in people from all over Metro--for a long-term period. In fairness, it should be moved around periodically and neighborhoods everywhere--including suburban ones (given that suburbs have increasing numbers of residents requiring social services)--should accept their responsibility for hosting MAC.<BR/><BR/>This is not NIMBY. It is <A HREF="http://enclave-nashville.blogspot.com/2006/08/talk-about-my-neighborhood-use-aimby.html" REL="nofollow">AIMBY</A>.<BR/><BR/>I would not be glad to see MAC go if either the people using it did not trash out Salemtown or Public Works cleaned up the mess on our sidewalks and streets after the needy came through. And frankly, on the longevity score, the building was a school first, not a MAC building. So, even if I were less glad to see MAC go, I would still argue that a public school for families here is a better use of the building.<BR/><BR/>There are many of us who live here who are interested in encouraging affordable housing builds to protect economic diversity, but as more and more people move in, those voices are being outnumbered by those who could care less. But even with the destructive effects of gentrification, the absentee property owners who sat by and harbored drug dealers, gangs, and prostitution in this neighborhood and waited for gentrification are more destructive than the people who have moved in so far and redeveloped the community and fought crime in this neighborhood at times at risk to their own safety. Don't blame gentrification for neighborhood ills that grow out of long-term systems of urban renewal and absentee property owners.S-townMikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05948307051485318061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-86933618622549736232007-08-10T21:33:00.000-05:002007-08-10T21:33:00.000-05:00Sorry that I haven't known about this before. How...Sorry that I haven't known about this before. However, my first thoughts are that it is a little arrogant to say that MAC doesn't belong in the neighborhood -- when it was there long before many of the present residents. Has there been a neighborhood planning process or at least a discussion that involved both long-term and newer residents? (Certainly possible, as I don't claim to know anything at all about this issue, other than what I have read on your site.) Perhaps the Howard School site will be better for MAC, but it smacks a little of gentrification moving out whatever the new folks don't like, even if it has been a part of the neighborhood for years.<BR/><BR/>And I agree that I'd hate to see an old school be developed without some real neighborhood involvement in planning what it might be.<BR/><BR/>Just out of curiousity, is anyone trying to keep any part of Salemtown affordable to those who have lived here for years? Or affordable to others of more modest means?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-31381987177194984992007-08-09T13:24:00.000-05:002007-08-09T13:24:00.000-05:00I have no children and no plans for children, but ...I have no children and no plans for children, but a school would be an ideal use of the space. Developing it as housing would be short-sighted.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07828906167277671509noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-51624004421539779042007-08-09T13:21:00.000-05:002007-08-09T13:21:00.000-05:00We moved here for the sake of diversity. Not just ...We moved here for the sake of diversity. Not just ethnic diversity, but age and lifestyle and everything in between. I spent 6 years in a neighborhood where everyone was basically the same and that's just not what I want for my kid. I'm with Mike. If Fehr is turned into condos it will imply to me that long term investment in the neighborhood from families isn't considered to be important here, and we'll move to East Nashville.audihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13346825453810860531noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-27857830904656910342007-08-08T21:59:00.000-05:002007-08-08T21:59:00.000-05:00The Van Hoesens and the Harveys are right there wi...The Van Hoesens and the Harveys are right there with you as well. Its not only important to us because we have children (or will have a few in the future) but we understand that a thriving community requires diversity on all levels. People tend to forget what goes into making a "great place". They just see the cool people in the cool coffee shops, and completely forget that the "cool" came from a union of many people groups working and living together. To be great, we need to be well rounded. To be well rounded, we need children, the elderly and everything in between. Without diversity, we have no future.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10635442.post-40207429005681010052007-08-08T20:37:00.000-05:002007-08-08T20:37:00.000-05:00Speaking for this empty-nester, I would love nothi...Speaking for this empty-nester, I would love nothing better than the Fehr building being a school again. We want families in this neighborhood. <BR/><BR/>I don't know who the empty-nesters you are referring to in the post, but Lynn and I would love to see the neighborhood develop so that families want to stay or new families move in.<BR/><BR/>I also whole-heartedly endorse moving the MAC to the Howard Campus. The mix of the MAC folks and the Head Start kids never seemed to be a good idea.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com