tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-47224982483830792162023-06-20T05:23:58.250-07:00Lancaster NotebookLancaster Notebook is the blog of Puffer Morris Real Estate. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722498248383079216.post-64482984325785800362015-02-17T06:58:00.001-08:002015-02-17T06:58:08.287-08:00Sorry for the missing masthead - we're working on it!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722498248383079216.post-64974306873870077522015-01-25T16:53:00.000-08:002015-01-29T10:30:30.030-08:00Shocked, Shattered, But Not Surprised“Shocked.” “Stunned.” “Shattered.” That’s a representative sample of the
expressions of collective horror, grief and anger that rang through Lancaster’s
West End following the hit-and-run vehicular killing of longtime neighbor Chuck
Leayman at the intersection of W. Lemon
and N. Mary streets last Sunday evening.<br />
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What no one said was “Surprised.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Chuck Leayman - quiet, literate, gently smiling</td></tr>
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That’s because Lancastrians know all too well that crossing
any intersection of a major thoroughfare in this city is part a game of chicken
and part Russian roulette.<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is a moment for outrage. Not only because <a href="http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/city-hit-run-pedestrian-dies-driver-charged/article_ddc28204-a0cf-11e4-8851-9fdb715432c4.html"><span style="color: blue;">the victim</span></a> was a beloved friend
and neighbor of so many -- a quiet, literate soul who wanted no more than to
live among his books and gently smile at his many acquaintances. The loss of one such as Chuck only makes the
tragedy that much more painful and, one hopes, consequential.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Chuck was killed by more than a random act of <a href="http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2015/01/fatal_hit-and-run_lancaster_ch.html"><span style="color: blue;">criminally reckless driving</span></a>. He is dead because
there is a fundamental failure of vehicular law enforcement by the City of
Lancaster.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Just to review, under Title 75, Sec. 3542 (a) of the
Pennsylvania Code, vehicles must yield to pedestrians crossing in an
intersection. The intersection does NOT
have to be marked by a pedestrian crosswalk (though the one in which Chuck
Leayman was killed was marked); nor must it display a “Yield to Pedestrians
Crossing” sign.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Failure to yield is punishable by a $50 fine and a two-point
license penalty; admittedly, not great
in deterrence value, but with the force of the law behind it, nonetheless.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yet what use is a law that routinely goes unenforced? Many will say that law or not, this is
Lancaster and speedway driving is a part of a culture that can’t be fixed, so
pedestrians beware.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Wrong.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1284509/"><span style="color: blue;">data</span></a> are overwhelming that well-planned, well-publicized
and consistently applied enforcement changes driver behavior almost completely
in a very short time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The proof is everywhere. <o:p></o:p></div>
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->In 2006 in <a href="http://www.pedbikeinfo.org/data/details.cfm?id=4649"><span style="color: blue;">North Jersey</span></a>, where aggressive
driving is a blood-sport worthy of Olympic status, the town of Montclair initiated several months of
publicity and issuance of warnings to drivers pushing through crosswalks with
pedestrians in them. They followed with
intensive enforcement including plain-clothes decoy pedestrians. Driver adherence became almost complete in
Montclair in a matter of weeks after full enforcement commenced. (New Jersey law requires a full stop for pedestrians in the crosswalk, and backs it up with two license points, $200 in fine, and 15-days of community service.)<br />
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->In Lisbon, Portugal, a country which embraces
roadway anarchy as enthusiastically as any Southern European society, your
correspondent during a visit earlier this month watched in awe as motorists
from every direction stopped promptly and politely at the first sign of a
pedestrian entering a marked crossing.<br />
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</span></span><!--[endif]-->In New York City, the world’s jaywalking
capital, nearly half of all pedestrian injuries occur to those lawfully within
the crosswalks. NYC Transportation
Commissioner Polly Trottenberg describes pedestrian safety as a public health
issue of “epidemic” scope. Lately NYPD
Commissioner Bill Bratton has the force cracking down on failure-to-yield
violations in some of the most dangerous intersections and corridors, such as
<a href="http://www.streetsblog.org/2014/01/27/78th-precinct-shows-what-vision-zero-enforcement-looks-like/"><span style="color: blue;">Sunset Park in Brooklyn</span></a>.<br />
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last summer, instituting a program of decoy pedestrians and formal warnings to
motorists failing to yield.<br />
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successful enforcement initiatives and changes in motorist behavior in Amherst,
Massachusetts, San Jose, Gainesville, Florida, and elsewhere throughout the
county.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Yes, it can be done and Lancaster must begin to do it. The city’s vaunted “<a href="http://lancnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/11/youre-looking-good-lancaster-but-how.html"><span style="color: blue;">Walkability” study</span></a> may be
a spearhead for progress, although at a recent public session, Jeff Speck, the
planning consultant in charge of the study, was peculiarly dismissive of
pedestrian crosswalk law as an effective tool to promote walkability.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Rather, Speck’s declared focus is to revert one-way
“drag-strip” corridors to two-way traffic in the expectation that two single
opposing lanes will promote more attentive motoring.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Speck’s strategy may work, but it wouldn’t have helped poor
Chuck Leayman, who was killed by a car barreling through the intersection of a
two-way thoroughfare.</div>
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Chuck’s death was a crime, to be sure, and we can only hope
and demand that justice be done. But let
there be justice not solely for the perpetrator, because this is a crime that also lands at the doorstep of the city.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Justice for Chuck Leayman – and the most fitting memorial –
would be a full-out enforcement campaign to change driver habits so they begin
to obey the law of Pennsylvania and observe the right of pedestrians to cross
the street in safety.<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722498248383079216.post-25677477026568936992015-01-20T12:10:00.000-08:002015-01-25T17:07:04.896-08:00Ephrata Library Update: Temporary Relief But No Permanent Cure<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 19.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
The travails of the Ephrata
Library — Lancaster County’s second busiest — may not be done just yet, but
they have been significantly reduced.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #535353; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">As discussed <a href="http://lancnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/12/ephrata-agonistes.html">here</a> last
month, a structural budget deficit forced the Library into the worst case
scenario short of a shutdown: half the staff was relieved of duty, programs
were slashed and hours shortened to the minimum required to meet state
operating standards.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: cyan;"><a href="http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/funding-woes-laid-off-staff-returns-but-financial-picture-at/article_0e9a3d00-9ffd-11e4-8270-4bc8ede7aeb5.html">announced</a> </span>a precariously balanced budget for 2015 and called back the
furloughed workers to return to their desks.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But the abbreviated operating hours remain in force and programs will
only be restored or continued if they are well subscribed.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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rescue was a successful fundraising drive, which raised some $160,000, much of
it donated after the fiscal problems were made known to the public.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #535353; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">Some creative
entrepreneurialism is also helping:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a
food truck will be stationed in the parking lot some days, and passport
services are proving to be a thriving line, bringing in revenue of more than
$180,000 last year.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, says
Library Director Penny Talbert, “We made more in passports than we get in state
funding.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #535353; font-family: "Trebuchet MS"; font-size: small; mso-bidi-font-family: "Trebuchet MS";">But that odd factoid only
serves to underscore yet again the woeful state of library finances in our fair
Commonwealth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And again we are reminded
that Lancaster County has chosen to forego the solution that has been effective
elsewhere: a county-wide library tax on property.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In Dauphin County, the library tax of 23.3
cents per $1000 of assessed value has been a steady funding source that is
barely noticed by the property taxpayer. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Board of Commissioners up for election this year, it would surely be desirable
if one or more of the candidates for the Board put the library tax on their
campaign agenda. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722498248383079216.post-2790791950727389732014-12-28T08:34:00.000-08:002014-12-28T08:34:16.156-08:002-1/2 Hours From Penn Square: Xu Bing’s Phoenix of Beauty, Power and Wonder<div class="MsoNormal">
Some great art dazzles us with its beauty; some
astonishes us with the power of its message.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Only intermittently do both qualities come together in a single work,
and then the effect is transcendent.<o:p></o:p></div>
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So we should all rejoice that New York’s Cathedral of St.
John the Divine, on Morningside Heights, has extended through February the
exhibition of one of the most arrestingly beautiful and meaningful sculptures of
our time: Xu Bing’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Phoenix</i>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Hung from the nave of one of the world’s grandest sacred
chambers, the piece is a feast of imagination and a call to consciousness: a
pair of flying dragons from Chinese mythology, 100 and 90 feet respectively,
assembled entirely from the construction detritus of a major commercial office
development in Beijing.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Aloft within the cathedral’s vastness, amid the sequoian columns,
vaulted ceilings and stained-glass tableaux of Biblical imagery, silently fly
these two fierce and noble creatures composed of tiles, tools, wire, ventilator hoods, machine
parts, rebar, fasteners and fittings – all festooned with light-emitting
diodes.</div>
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Commissioned to create a monumental sculpture as a signature
for the massive, Cesar Pelli-designed Beijing World Financial Center, Xu, a
MacArthur fellow who divides his time between the United States and his native
China, was as deeply affected by the have-and-have-not conditions of China’s
emergence, as by the commercial demands of the building project. <o:p></o:p></div>
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His dragon-birds capture both the high-voltage dynamism of
the new China, and the terrible costs it extracts on the people and environment
of the world’s biggest country. The artist himself explained: "The phoenix of today's China bears countless scars; it has lived through hardship. But it has adorned itself with great self-respect."</div>
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When he assembled <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Phoenix
</i>at the building site, the developers wanted him to sanitize and soften the
mixed message by giving it a facelift with a coating of crystals to make the birds
shimmer like sequined ballerinas.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Xu would have none of it, and, to his great good fortune and
America’s, Taiwanese tech tycoon Barry Lam financed the purchase and transport
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Phoenix </i>to the contemporary art
museum Mass MoCA, in North Adams, Massachusetts. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Original plans had the work returning to its home in the
Berkshires at the end of this year, but New Yorkers have been given an extra
few months of viewing time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Anyone with
an opportunity to see and experience this 21<sup>st</sup> Century masterwork would
be remiss not to do so.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Get up and go:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Cathedral of St. John the Divine is
located at Amsterdam Avenue and W. 112<sup>th</sup> Street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Take the #1 subway to 116<sup>th</sup>
Street-Columbia University.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Hours are
7:30 am to 6 pm, and admission is without charge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Across Amsterdam Avenue a block to the south
are The Hungarian Pastry Shop and V&T’s pizzeria/restaurant, both legendary
for the generations of Columbia students who plant themselves there for hours
of reading, writing and noshing. On W. 106<sup>th</sup> Street is Culinaria
Gastronomia, an extraordinary Italian restaurant.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722498248383079216.post-90023941231001713162014-12-16T14:55:00.001-08:002014-12-16T14:55:40.267-08:00Ephrata Agonistes<div class="MsoNormal">
Last August this blog discussed the <a href="http://lancnotebook.blogspot.com/2014/08/our-temple-of-democracy-and-its.html">looming fiscal difficulties facing public libraries </a>generally and Lancaster’s public library specifically. Over the past
month, the crisis has arrived, however it hit not in the City, but in Ephrata.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Facing a shortfall projected between $80,000 to $100,000,
the Ephrata Library – Lancaster County’s second busiest – was forced to make
<a href="http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/ephrata-library-director-we-are-doing-all-we-can/article_4bc5a19c-6eca-11e4-9a2f-4b535b9932d6.html">deep, painful cuts</a>: Sundays and Fridays closed, evening hours curtailed,
programs cancelled, and 11 employees – half the staff – laid off. Gone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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On the face of it, the shortfall was attributed to a bad
year of fundraising from private donors, who generate almost two-thirds of the
Library’s operating funds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Perhaps
given a ‘kickstart’ by its crisis, Ephrata Library out-performed other
Lancaster County public library programs in the Thanksgiving week
<a href="https://www.extragive.org/#leaderboard">‘Extraordinary Give’ </a>fundraising drive, harvesting more than $29,000 contributed by
328 donors.)<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9hOWqgdJ3oc/VJC2RARlddI/AAAAAAAAAaY/dwN-6ISVRhg/s1600/images.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-9hOWqgdJ3oc/VJC2RARlddI/AAAAAAAAAaY/dwN-6ISVRhg/s1600/images.jpg" height="200" width="200" /></a>We’ve become accustomed as a nation to having a certain type
of public service increasingly reliant on voluntary contributions rather than
government support through the appropriation of general revenues.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This concept took off during the tax-cutting
1980’s, underpinned by the rhetorical premise that so-called “discretionary”
services should be able to demonstrate their worth to the public by surviving
in the competitive marketplace of charitable giving.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The poster-child that was said to validate the concept was
public broadcasting – PBS, National Public Radio, and their member stations – which
went from hand-wringing over lost government support to self-sustaining
fundraising juggernauts in a few short years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>(At this point in the article, there is an overwhelming temptation to
take a short break in order to meet this hour’s goal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is there a matching grant somewhere out
there?) <o:p></o:p></div>
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But except for a few flagship institutions, public
libraries, parks and museums are really not in the same fundraising boat as
public TV or radio, given broadcasting technology’s incomparable reach and
messaging impact.<o:p></o:p></div>
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For our more localized community institutions, the current
over-dependence on private donors just is not going to cut it for the
long-term.<br />
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Must it be this way?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Apparently not, as evidenced by Dauphin County, where a <a href="http://www.witf.org/news/2014/12/cuts-in-lancaster-county-focus-attention-on-library-funding.php">dedicated countywidelibrary tax funds 65 percent of library operations</a>, providing the county’s
libraries with funding stability, if not quite abundance.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Then there is the parlous condition of our fiscally
mismanaged Commonwealth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If a new
Administration in Harrisburg can find a way to overcome the forecast of
gridlock from a General Assembly controlled by the loyal opposition, perhaps
some reasonable participation and overdue funding relief is in sight for our
precious community public services. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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As
Willy Loman’s wife Linda, warning of the awful price of abandonment, put it to
her sons in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Death of a Salesman</i>,
“Attention…attention finally must be paid.”<o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722498248383079216.post-73502157890937544132014-11-21T12:00:00.001-08:002014-11-21T12:00:52.197-08:00You’re Looking Good, Lancaster, But How Well Do You Move?<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;">
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So the good news is that one of America’s leading urban
planners thinks Lancaster is the “best looking city” he’s worked in, and he’s
worked in a lot of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The bad news –for
planner <a href="http://jeffspeck.com/">Jeff Speck</a>, that is – is that it’s not so easy to find ways to improve
things.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Speck, who is co-author of the urban revival manifesto<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Suburban-Nation-Sprawl-Decline-American/dp/0865477507/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389645442&sr=1-1&keywords=suburban+nation">“Suburban Nation”</a>, shouldn’t be overly apprehensive since he is the recipient
of $50,000 from the <a href="http://www.lancastercityalliance.org/">Lancaster City Alliance</a> to come up with ideas to make downtown
Lancaster more ”walkable.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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To that end, an auditorium full of citizens and officials
came to Ware Center Monday evening to hear Speck go through a locally
customized version of his celebrated <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/jeff_speck_the_walkable_city?language=en">TED Talk</a> (800,000-plus views and counting)
on “The Walkable City” (not coincidentally, the title of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Walkable-City-Downtown-Save-America/dp/0865477728/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid=">his newest book</a>).<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/expert-kicks-off-downtown-walkability-study-speaks-here-monday/article_d9b26a38-6cf1-11e4-ad79-c76d113b7aa8.html">The goal</a>, in his catchphrase, is “to use everyday design in
everyday spaces that get people out in the street.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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This is happening around the country, in urban centers large
and small that are seeking ways to promote business, entertainment, housing,
recreation and reputation – apparently, we all want to live in Portlandia these
days – by getting people out of their cars and moving by foot (or by extension,
two-wheeled, foot-powered pedals).<o:p></o:p></div>
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Speck cautioned that typical planning practice tends to look
out 20 years, but, as a member of the cohort the planners now term “aging
boomers,” his tolerance for deferred gratification has waned, so he’s viewing
the Lancaster project as one of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>recommending strategies that can be realized within two to five years
time.<o:p></o:p></div>
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His fundamental, inarguable premise is that the miracle of
the private automobile has resulted in a litany of social, economic and
environmental ills; hence if people were to drive less it would benefit them
and their communities with improved health, prosperity, social welfare and
environmental quality.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Speck’s approach to reducing the tyranny of the car is not
to abolish its use but to tweak the conditions of its operation:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Narrower traffic corridors and fewer lanes,
more four-way stop intersections and fewer stoplights, replacing one-way
raceways with two-way flows that prevent driver jockeying and passing, and lots
of on-street parking, a bit counter-intuitively, to separate sidewalks and bike
lanes from auto flow are the hit tunes in his songbook.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Plans are already afoot (as it were), including the
reversion of Mulberry Street to two-way flow, followed thereafter by a look at
the same change for Charlotte Street. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moves such as these are not aimed to reduce
congestion as much as contain congestion and turn it to benefit by discouraging
those with a choice from getting into the car to make that quick trip to the
market or café.</div>
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Speck makes little reference to the economists’ favored mechanism
of pricing to incentivize behavior.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nor
does he have much to say beyond a perfunctory nod about the importance of
transit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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The latter omission seems shortsighted inasmuch as our
commuter rail service is at the heart of what makes Lancaster attractive and successful
far beyond that of Pennsylvania’s other comparably sized cities.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But with the recently spruced up train
station almost solely dependent on car travel to deliver and collect passengers,
the inadequacies of the bus network would be a worthy line of inquiry for Speck
to pursue as his study proceeds.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Make yourself heard:
Jeff Speck invites comments and suggestions for his Lancaster Walkability
Study.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Tweet him at: <a href="https://twitter.com/jeffspeckaicp">https://twitter.com/jeffspeckaicp</a><o:p></o:p></i></div>
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722498248383079216.post-89253410128208713702014-10-03T17:55:00.000-07:002014-10-03T18:46:15.627-07:00Back Where They Belong<br />
Lancaster's grand burghers gathered Thursday to formally dedicate the newly renovated and expanded City Hall. The historic 1888 Duke Street structure -- originally built for use as the main Post Office until its acquisition by the city in 1930 -- has been remodeled, modernized and joined at the hip with a new, complimentary annex behind it on Marion Street.<br />
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It is a visual delight that is -- to give a new twist to an old saying -- not bad for government work.<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zDto5cSWKHs/VC87qmE2tPI/AAAAAAAAAYY/IofcAd0AZ6c/s1600/ribbon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zDto5cSWKHs/VC87qmE2tPI/AAAAAAAAAYY/IofcAd0AZ6c/s1600/ribbon.jpg" height="297" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Ribbons were cut, of course</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-apDSfYjkFak/VC88BK1EXtI/AAAAAAAAAYg/d20sGaGZHQc/s1600/Chamber.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-apDSfYjkFak/VC88BK1EXtI/AAAAAAAAAYg/d20sGaGZHQc/s1600/Chamber.jpg" height="300" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The new City Council chambers</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IugMA9lH7v4/VC883rYeRiI/AAAAAAAAAYs/rqkAEJ_nk-Y/s1600/Gallery.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-IugMA9lH7v4/VC883rYeRiI/AAAAAAAAAYs/rqkAEJ_nk-Y/s1600/Gallery.jpg" height="400" width="393" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Council Chambers lobby doubles as an art gallery<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H4yk-mvx96E/VC89ocvqLZI/AAAAAAAAAY0/l_xiZmSAxFI/s1600/porthole.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H4yk-mvx96E/VC89ocvqLZI/AAAAAAAAAY0/l_xiZmSAxFI/s1600/porthole.png" height="252" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The juxtaposition of old and new creates some delightful geometries.<br />
Here, a porthole window in the northeast staircase</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jl0Qe9hz9zc/VC8-ZDQ47OI/AAAAAAAAAY8/hEPwfykhRnA/s1600/stairs.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-jl0Qe9hz9zc/VC8-ZDQ47OI/AAAAAAAAAY8/hEPwfykhRnA/s1600/stairs.jpg" height="320" width="238" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And here, the main stairway of the new wing<br />
rises up to greet what once was the rear <br />
exterior of the original building<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K9TNsy8tuec/VC8_MnkPd5I/AAAAAAAAAZM/0zfajnr4TxY/s1600/columns.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K9TNsy8tuec/VC8_MnkPd5I/AAAAAAAAAZM/0zfajnr4TxY/s1600/columns.jpg" height="385" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The center of the old building has been opened up on the first floor, revealing a <br />
grove of squared columns with ornate capitals</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2G2n6nNpxIQ/VC9AmcP9m8I/AAAAAAAAAZY/uK40DsGTOl4/s1600/yardbags.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-2G2n6nNpxIQ/VC9AmcP9m8I/AAAAAAAAAZY/uK40DsGTOl4/s1600/yardbags.jpg" height="320" width="233" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Worth a visit, if only to <br />
pick up a yard-waste bag...</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-khXHxHo7mLc/VC8-4rHbovI/AAAAAAAAAZE/VbHj6Q8nUbM/s1600/Gray%2Boffice.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-khXHxHo7mLc/VC8-4rHbovI/AAAAAAAAAZE/VbHj6Q8nUbM/s1600/Gray%2Boffice.jpg" height="200" width="195" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...or to pop into the Mayor's office</td></tr>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RHv1CWqjtXU/VC9BdAJBE4I/AAAAAAAAAZo/9bYzHs8JY7Y/s1600/Hutson.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-RHv1CWqjtXU/VC9BdAJBE4I/AAAAAAAAAZo/9bYzHs8JY7Y/s1600/Hutson.jpg" height="640" width="478" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Art everywhere. Here, Bill Hutson's Lancaster Series on the 2d Floor</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The grand main entry, back in service</td></tr>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mGR-HCUuWB4/VC9BuHsEodI/AAAAAAAAAZw/E0cC6gFN7vo/s1600/Cityhall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-mGR-HCUuWB4/VC9BuHsEodI/AAAAAAAAAZw/E0cC6gFN7vo/s1600/Cityhall.jpg" height="640" width="480" /></a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722498248383079216.post-54222700050441796492014-09-30T08:15:00.000-07:002014-10-01T06:03:39.426-07:00Painting With Light: The Art of Bunch Washington<div class="MsoNormal">
The first and lasting impression made by the art of Bunch Washington, an
obscure but multi-talented African-American visual artist, is its deep
luminescence.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Washington (1937-2008), whose work is now on exhibit at
Franklin & Marshall’s Phillips Museum, tinkered and experimented for years
in his home studios in Brooklyn and Poughkeepsie, NY, until he found the right
formula of resin and pigments.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These he
would pour and mix, gradually building up, layer by layer, adding color and
dropping in objects both random and specific to be in encased in the fluid radiance
of the cured solid blocks he would call <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“transparent collage.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The artist Bunch Washington in Brooklyn<br />
photo: Jerry Jack, courtesy Valentine NY</td></tr>
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A dozen of these, including two bas relief sculptures that
were antecedents along the artist’s path of developing his technique, are on
display around the perimeter of the Phillips’s Dana Gallery.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They surround a room filled with the man’s lifetime
memorabilia and an odd assortment of unprepossessing, mid-century diner
furniture meant to evoke the Lower East Side soul-food restaurant Washington
ran that was a haunt of Charles Mingus, Dick Gregory, Kathleen Neal, Sun Ra and
other nonpareils of New York’s mid-Sixties African-American cultural flowering
during that fertile moment.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Regrettably, though perhaps necessarily, the transparent collages are
illuminated artificially from behind rather than by the natural light that Washington
created them for.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Like the windows at
Chartres, these pieces were made to change and interplay with the movement and constant
variations of sunlight.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VbGk108ckuM/VCrFfr2gooI/AAAAAAAAAYA/kYBJXeJqPgA/s1600/Eastern%2BBeauty.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VbGk108ckuM/VCrFfr2gooI/AAAAAAAAAYA/kYBJXeJqPgA/s1600/Eastern%2BBeauty.jpg" height="400" width="305" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Eastern Beauty, year unknown<br />
photo: Melissa Hess</td></tr>
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The impermanence of experience emanating from within the
confinement of these meticulously constructed blocks of kaleidoscopic colors
and talismanic objects – jewelry and fabrics, charms, coins, leaves and flowers,
an occasional photograph – amply represents Washington’s searching and often
turbulent life.<o:p></o:p></div>
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McCleary Bunch Washington was born fatherless into a poor
Philadelphia family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His innate talent
and creativity were identified by a public school art teacher early on, earning
him formal training at the Fleisher Art Memorial, the Philadelphia Museum
School and the Barnes Foundation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
restaurant was his entry point into the New York scene, where he then turned
his rich knowledge and strong writing skills into a breakthrough scholastic
volume about Romare Bearden, a giant of African-American art in the last century.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Bearden befriended him and they developed a mentor-protégé relationship that propelled Washington’s own artistic journey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He never received great recognition and was
financially stressed most of his life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He also suffered periodic bouts of mental illness that sent him hurtling
off-track at various times, and in his later years he lapsed into drug
addiction and homelessness.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Washington’s daughter<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(and the curator of the Phillips exhibition) Elizabeth de Souza believes
it is possible her father’s psychological disturbances were rooted in the
neurotoxicity of the materials he worked with.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Whatever its origins, he remained to the end a man of gentle manner,
engaging, humorous and curious.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In his
stretches of lucidity, he was given to compose poetry, much of it informed by
the precepts of the Baha’i Faith that he embraced early in adulthood.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The struggles of a black American man buffeted hard by life’s
storms, creating beauty and meaning while trying to make his way in New York’s
remorseless art world, reveal themselves in Bunch Washington’s transparent
collages. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But they reveal themselves
without rancor or recrimination.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They
reveal themselves in the play of the light, the external light captured within
the box, and the light then transformed and refracted outward toward the
viewer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the process, the artist –
somewhat miraculously – conjures serenity.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2PCtV4BK91E/VCrF1LHnn1I/AAAAAAAAAYI/8lcy6hyvSTA/s1600/Pearls.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2PCtV4BK91E/VCrF1LHnn1I/AAAAAAAAAYI/8lcy6hyvSTA/s1600/Pearls.jpg" height="303" width="400" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pearls, 1998<br />
photo: Melissa Hess</td></tr>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Get up and go:<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The exhibition
<a href="http://bunchwashington.com/">“Painting With Light: The Art of Bunch Washington”</a> will remain at the <a href="http://www.fandm.edu/phillipsmuseum">PhillipsMuseum of Art</a> through Oct. 31, 2014.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
museum is located in the south wing of the Steinman College Center and is open
to the public, free of charge, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 11:30 am – 4:00
pm, Thursday 1:00 pm – 4:30 pm, and on weekends, 12:30 pm – 4:30 pm.<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722498248383079216.post-38746007269358198722014-09-16T18:26:00.001-07:002014-09-21T11:54:03.014-07:00Charlie's Afternoon<div class="MsoNormal">
Charlie has to start work in two hours and he really needs a bath.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Charlie, along with two of his three fellow equine members
of the Lancaster Mounted Police Unit, was out the day before with his primary
rider, Officer Wayne McVey, splashing in the Conestoga River during a trail
ride in County Central Park.<o:p></o:p></div>
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“Yesterday, we just let the horses be horses,” said McVey,
as he led Charlie into the Mounted Unit barn in Long’s Park to get him prepped
for that evening’s patrol duty. But oh the mud; caked deep in under Charlie’s bay coat. </div>
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So before even thinking about his bath, McVey pulled the
heavy apparatus out of the tack room – starting with the shop-vac.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This was followed by a thorough combing with
a hand-held, toothed device that looked like it was modeled after the lower jaw
of an alligator.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Finally, a good hose down and brushing and Charlie was ready
to dry in the afternoon sun.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He took it with
nothing but equine equanimity – in fact, he seemed downright pleased.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Well, who wouldn’t want a full body-rub
before heading out to work every day?” McVey asked philosophically.</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Mounted Officer Wayne McVey and Charlie</td></tr>
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McVey, who is a 15-year veteran of the unit, knows his mount
well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The grooming is where the horse
and rider cement the bond that carries them through the stresses and
uncertainties of seven or eight hours on patrol in the city’s streets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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“All he wants to do when we’re out there is to please me,”
McVey said.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s the foundation for a
beautiful partnership.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Charlie is 11-years old, the newest and, at 2200 pounds and
nearly 18 hands tall, the biggest of the four horses in the unit. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Next in size is Duke, 14, as white and
imposing as Moby Dick, then Liam, 13, and the smallest, the red, 14-year-old Ozzy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Liam has been off active duty this
summer recuperating from a leg injury</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Liam, convalescing</td></tr>
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McVey had started his tour in the Mounted Unit riding Zeke, whose death in 2009 broke the officer’s heart and had him considering his
options.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then Charlie arrived from a
farm in Kennett Square and training him revived McVey’s spirit.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The horses have a mystical way of doing that, not just for
those close to them, but for most everyone they encounter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Make no mistake, their work is serious and
tough, but as much as anything, the Mounted Unit are, as McVey described them,
“the city’s ambassadors.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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Founded in 1979, Lancaster’s Mounted Unit is one of only
four in Pennsylvania (the others belong to the cities of Philadelphia and
Bethlehem and the PA State Police).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
cost, which is considerable, has always been borne by private funds donated to
the Lancaster Police Foundation (to make a contribution <a href="http://www.lancpolicefoundation.org/">click here</a>).</div>
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There’s a good bit of ceremonial work and pageantry involved
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them to Washington.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There are frequent
exhibitions and educational appearances at schools, camps and other
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police force routinely performs, like crowd control and traffic enforcement. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Mounted Unit’s service record includes duty
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Their most familiar setting, of course, is on the streets of
downtown Lancaster, where the animals’ strong, yet placid demeanor in the face
of blaring horns, unmuffled motorcycles and belching diesel trucks invites
strangers to smile and passersby to stop and, if only for a moment, to be
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Naturally, children are Charlie’s core constituency. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>McVey acknowledges, in a city made up of large
minority communities whose relations with the police force have often enough
been fraught, it can be the case that the kids come up to give Charlie a hug or
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This lazy, late summer afternoon, a ten-year-old named
Julian – his mom told him not to reveal a last name – found Charlie and McVey
standing post in Penn Square. Julian stroked Charlie’s snout, rubbed his neck,
wanted to know how fast he could go. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Julian’s little sister looked on in sheer awe
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722498248383079216.post-64273151500275385372014-09-01T08:00:00.000-07:002014-09-01T08:07:13.359-07:00Chestnut Street Landmark Goes Bronx<div class="p1">
It was au revoir last week for a small but well-known piece of public sculpture on the 500 block of West Chestnut Street.</div>
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"Urban Regeneration," an aptly named gathering of sedimentary coquina rocks and twisted, weathered steel by Bronx artist Linda Cunningham, was ponderously rolled up into the back of a rental truck and shipped off to a new location in the northeast <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/01/realestate/westchester-square-the-bronx-stay-awhile.html?pagewanted=all">Bronx neighborhood of Westchester Square, which is itself experiencing a regeneration</a>. </div>
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The piece now removed from Chestnut Street is no stranger to travel. Originally much larger, it was exhibited in Knoxville, Tenn., where a Georgia collector purchased a large segment of it. The remainder found an on-loan home in Lancaster, but when the homeowners sold to new occupants who wanted the sculpture gone, the search for a new site commenced.</div>
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Formerly a professor of sculpture at Franklin & Marshall and a determined urban regenerator herself, Cunningham departed Lancaster some years back for the South Bronx, where she established the community gallery <a href="http://www.bronxartspace.com/index.php">bronxartspace</a>. </div>
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The life of a work of art can be as nomadic as that of the artist. We wish both all due success.</div>
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This month should not close with <span class="s1"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"><span id="goog_1612817289"></span>Sir Peter Hall’s passing<span id="goog_1612817290"></span></a></span> having gone unnoted.<br />
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Hall died July 30 in London at 82. He was perhaps the greatest urban planner of his time, a prolific writer of 50 books and more than 2000 articles, the author of the 1998 historical masterwork “Cities in Civilization”, and a bold proponent of new thinking about urban development whose ideas often came into their own long after he put them forward.</div>
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<span class="s2">Hall was a man of the left, was often criticized as a Utopian, but never lost sight of the practicalities </span>of economic growth and opportunity, dynamic social mobility, and hard trade-offs of building urban environments.<br />
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He made common cause with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan in promoting the idea of the enterprise zone — beloved of politicians of both right and left — to revitalize targeted centers of urban decay with incentives and tax breaks. Jack Kemp’s singular brand of conservatism owes Hall an enormous debt.<br />
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Urban planning fell into disrepute in the 1960s and 70s largely in reaction to the massive works of development after World War II that tore up neighborhoods and imposed Corbusian sterility on a dehumanizing scale. Hall, while coming out of that tradition and unafraid to think big, nevertheless kept a feel for the street-level excitement of city life that has been instrumental to the urban revival of the past quarter-century.<br />
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Hall vigorously advocated for ambitious rail-transit projects; London’s new 60 mile Crossrail line, Europe’s largest public works project, is largely his brainchild. He strongly believed in cycling as an essential ingredient of the urban transport mix.<br />
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Significantly, Hall valued not just the vibrant city center, but also the periphery; understanding that the city is the heart, but just that part, of its greater region. He called for the development of “garden cities,” not suburbs, but small urban centers often developed around transit links. Here in the northeastern US, where many small cities are mired in post-industrial decline and impoverishment, Hall’s vision suggests enticing possibilities of regeneration.</div>
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As the NIMBY-ism of the late 20th Century gave way to more of a “let’s get building again” sensibility, the role of the planner in guiding development has regained some of its former legitimacy. Build, certainly; but, in a time when the costs and consequences of unbridled growth are increasingly cause for alarm, there is new appreciation of the need to build smart.</div>
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Peter Hall thought <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2014/jan/17/uk-planning-expert-peter-hall-britain-wrong"><span class="s1">society should build more</span></a>, but he thought it would turn out much better if it were well planned.<br />
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<i>Note: This entry of </i>Lancaster Notebook <i>is reprinted from the public affairs blog </i><a href="http://www.autokthonous.com/?p=1393">AutoKthonous</a>.</div>
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722498248383079216.post-46261745436436411172014-08-24T20:02:00.001-07:002014-08-25T14:49:42.327-07:00Our Temple of Democracy and Its Uncertain Future<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">For the Lancaster Public Library, the good news
and the bad news have stacked up so close to one another it's almost a metaphor
for urban living.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Faced with cuts in
funding support earlier this year, the Library ditched $90,000 worth of database
subscriptions that were among the most heavily used and useful for small
business owners, entrepreneurs and start-ups.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">At the same time the library management is
cooking up big plans -- as in $8.5 million big -- for a major facility
renovation and expansion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A full-ahead
capital campaign is being readied for launch and almost $3 million in pledges have
already been secured, <a href="http://lancasteronline.com/news/local/city-library-plans-million-campaign-to-renovate-expand-facility/article_92258bc8-b4f5-11e3-97b7-0017a43b2370.html">according</a> to the <i>Intel-New Era</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">It's a great thing to think big, but the library's Janus-faced financial picture mirrors a larger existential debate
currently being played out among library professionals in the board rooms and offices
they occupy overlooking those hushed reading rooms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The question before the house runs something like this: in a
resource-constrained time, should the public library hunker down and provide
the basic services -- collections, lending, reference, reading and writing
space -- that have served its patrons so well for generations; or, in an age of
information abundance, should the library reinvent itself to become the public
doorway to new tools and forms of collecting, portraying, analyzing and
communicating the epochal expansion of knowledge and data?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The point and counterpoint have been playing out this month on the
(digital) pages of the fine on-line publication, <i><a href="http://nextcity.org/">Next City</a></i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">As explained in an in-depth<a href="http://nextcity.org/forefront/view/what-does-a-library-without-books-look-like"> piece</a> by Amanda Erikson of<i> The Washington
Post</i>, proponents of tomorrow’s technology-driven library see the traditional
library user aging out, while a new generation of patrons is appearing already
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Erikson lays out the problem: “</span><span style="color: #2c3035; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Only 48 percent of all Americans over
16 years old stepped foot into a library in 2013, down from 53 percent in 2012.
Twenty-four percent of Americans didn’t read a single book in 2013. There are a
lot of reasons for that decline — people are busier now, with television and
movies and the Internet all vying for time and attention. In a digital age,
when most people can download most books without even leaving the couch, what
can libraries offer their patrons? A place to work? Computers? DVDs? Job
training? In other words: What makes a library a library, anyway?”</span><br />
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place she found her answer was North Carolina State University, which has
looked to create the library of the future, after hearing from students that
what they needed were “spaces to work together and opportunities to visualize
data on some kind of grand scale.”</span><span style="color: #2c3035; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><span style="color: #2c3035; font-family: Helvetica;">So
rather than reading a book about a historic event, say D-Day, they’d be supplied
advanced tools to actually build a digital model of the assault on Omaha Beach.</span><br />
<span style="color: #2c3035; font-family: Helvetica;"><br />Another
feature of tomorrow’s library is decentralization. In the suburbs around San
Antonio, the Bexar County library system is installing connected terminals in
all sorts of unexpected places: jury rooms, bus stations and hospitals, among
them.</span><br />
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compelling vision, yet no more than two days passed after publication of
Erikson’s article that <i>Next City</i> ran a <a href="http://nextcity.org/daily/entry/computers-libraries-no-book-libraries-ebooks">ringing dissent</a> by Adam Feldman, a
music librarian at the Free Library of Philadelphia. “Books on a shelf arranged
by the Dewey Decimal System are an essential and invaluable architecture of human
discovery and understanding,” wrote Feldman.</span><br />
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what he believes to be the false promise of “digital evalgelism”, Feldman adds:
“The digital-only library is far from a utopian information commons. Rather,
that utopian commons is the traditional, well-resourced, urban library with
several generations worth of collection expertise.”</span></div>
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<span style="color: #2c3035; font-family: Helvetica;">Diametrically
opposed though they may be, both camps recognize and embrace the core social
justice role of the public library to provide universal opportunity to learn --
regardless of economic or social status -- and to do so at little or no cost to
the user.</span><span style="color: #2c3035; font-family: Helvetica;"> </span><br />
<span style="color: #2c3035; font-family: Helvetica;"><br />They are striving to ensure
the library remains, writes Erikson, “as Andrew Carnegie imagined: a place
where the poor can go to better themselves, to find a job and to access the
resources so easily accessible to the rich."</span><span style="color: #2c3035; font-family: Helvetica;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="color: #2c3035; font-family: Helvetica;">As
Lancaster’s library mulls its future, the essential mission remains as it's always been, even if the methods
are expanding at Big-Bang speed.</span><br />
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<b><br />Bill Puffer: </b>I have been involved in sales and marketing for over 50 years and I came to Lancaster with the Hamilton Watch Co. Among other experience there, I was the District Manager for the South Eastern US. and National Director of Sales for the Vantage watches, a Hamilton product line.</div>
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<i><b>LN: </b>When did you launch Puffer Morris, and what motivated you to go into the business here?</i></div>
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<i><br /></i><b>Bill: </b>My partner, Nancy Morris and I established Puffer Morris Real Estate in 1982. We both had a strong interest in Lancaster City and believed that there was great future potential here. For many years, we advertised ourselves as urban realtors who specialized in Lancaster City. This was unique in the local real estate community since most offices offer services in the general market.</div>
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<br /><i><b>LN: </b>What are the primary changes that have taken place in the city during the time Puffer Morris has been in business?</i></div>
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<b><br />Bill: </b>The City of Lancaster has gained wide recognition as one of the finest urban residential locations in the Eastern U.S.A. This has been like a snowball that continues to grow and today several surveys have listed Lancaster among the top choices in the country.</div>
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<i><span class="s2"><br /></span><span class="s3"><b>LN: </b> </span>So how have these changes affected the real estate market during this time?</i></div>
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<b><br />Bill: </b>Real estate values have continued to increase and will do so in the future because home prices here are only a fraction of those for homes in adjacent markets from Washington DC to New York.</div>
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<br /><i><b><br />LN: </b>And have the changes in the real estate market changed the way real estate professionals go about doing their job? What has remained the same?</i></div>
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<i><br /></i><span class="s1"><b>Bill: </b> </span>When I got in to the business, we operated with a card system that was unmanageable. Changes were updated twice a week and the pile grew rapidly. For information, we would call the listing office. Comments regarding the system were mostly profane and in the first office that I was in, the broker stacked the cards in a corner. When the pile fell over the cards were thrown out. Today, we operate with a state of the art MLS system that gives us and the customer instant access to thousands of listings and information, present and past.</div>
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<b style="font-style: italic;">LN: </b><i>In the near term, what are a few of the biggest factors that will shape the future of the real estate market in Lancaster?</i></div>
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<b><br />Bill: </b>Maintaining the stable government that we have now is critical. The city has a dynamic menu of special events that is also growing. The list is too long to cover here, but the lifestyle in Lancaster is robust. People who come in from other areas are surprised to find the wide range of activities. Lancaster is also a city of neighborhoods where residents get to know each other and interact socially. Groups often get together and visit the many fine restaurants, taverns and cultural events downtown.</div>
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<i><b>LN: </b>Do you have any off-the-beaten-track places in Lancaster you love to visit or take visitors to?<span class="s3"> </span></i></div>
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<b><br />Bill: </b>I often take clients on a tour of the Lancaster that I know. We go through neighborhoods, side streets and alleys where there are remarkable homes hidden behind facades that normally would not be noticed. These run the gamut from beautiful restorations, to dramatic contemporaries, to converted warehouses and commercial buildings. Many of them could be featured in a magazine. One of the pleasures of this business is that we have been fortunate over the years to have sold many of them several times.</div>
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<br /><i><b>LN: </b>What trends in your business do you see growing in the years ahead?</i></div>
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<b>Bill: </b>Each year, our clientele from other areas of the country continues to grow as more people become aware of the benefits of life in the City of Lancaster. They become our best ambassadors, and at this time, I can think of several who are now moving in, or planning to, because of friends who are here now.<br />
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<i><b>LN: </b>This year, Puffer Morris's ownership changed hands. What does the future hold for your firm?</i></div>
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<b><br />Bill:</b> Last January 1, our business was sold to Ric and Mary Tribble and Scott Haverstick, three of our former agents. They are continuing our long term interest and commitment to Lancaster City while also using their considerable knowledge and expertise as they expand in to select suburban areas.</div>
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722498248383079216.post-78633694691488025942014-08-02T08:14:00.000-07:002014-08-16T11:58:02.104-07:00Flow gently, sweet Brandywine<br />
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Few places are as suffused in the past as the Brandywine Valley of southeast Chester and Delaware counties and northern Delaware. It's not only due to the great Revolutionary battlefield, or the magnificent estates -- now publicly accessible -- built by several generations of DuPonts. The pastoral quality of the landscape alone can transport a visitor back into a simpler and more tranquil time.</div>
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The heart of this storybook area is in Chadds Ford at the <a href="http://www.brandywine.org/">Brandywine Museum</a>, where, in a restored and converted gristmill on the bank of the Brandywine Creek, is housed a delightful and stimulating collection devoted to the many artists who have lived and been inspired by the Brandywine's beauty -- first and foremost among them, three generations of Wyeths. </div>
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Andrew Wyeth (1917-2009) is of course renowned as one of the last century's great realists. His galleries are rich in pieces that evoke the routines and customs of rural life. Their simplicity is counterpointed by an understated tension expressed in the faces and bodies of his subjects (most of them neighbors and intimates) of yearning, sorrow and joy. The effect is a matter-of-fact honesty that has captivated viewers and often befuddled fellow artists and critics. Snow Hill, Andrew's meditation on death (his own) is a masterwork -- at once sardonic and mysterious.</div>
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The art of Andrew's son James (born 1946), more pictorial and less melancholy than the father's, but equally absorbed with the the region's life and land, is abundantly on view, as are works of many painters of an earlier time who were equally taken with this countryside. "The Way Back," a self-portrait by George Weymouth (born 1936) showing only his hands on the reins of a horse-drawn carriage as it approaches his Chadd's Ford river house, is a conscious homage to that tradition.</div>
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However, for some visitors, particularly those with a leaning toward fantasy and adventure, the highlight is the NC Wyeth gallery. Andrew's father and James's grandfather, Newell Convers Wyeth (1882-1945) was one of the great book illustrators of his time, bringing to life in the mind's eye of young readers knights and buccaneers, explorers and fortune-hunters of all sorts. </div>
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Entrance to the gallery is marked by the stealthy approach of a gang of pirates set on ambush, rendered against a lurid, solid yellow sky. The painting was commissioned for the cover of Robert Louis Stevenson's <i>Treasure Island</i>, and on the walls within are found vivid scenes of Jim Hawkins and Long John Silver, a brooding Roger Bacon, the medieval philosopher, and the Salem witches. A favorite is the American traitor Benedict Arnold with his beautiful wife Peggy Shippen at his side, miserably exiled to London in a losing cause, the object of passerbys' curiosity and more than a little contempt. For any youngster with a taste for action and adventure, this art is a visual and imaginary feast.<br />
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<i>Get up and go:</i></div>
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<i>The Brandywine Museum is located on Route 1 northbound in Chadd's Ford. From Lancaster, take Route 896 south out of Strasburg and enjoy one of Pennsylvania's finest scenic byways. Try <a href="http://www.bullfroginngeorgetown.com/">The Bullfrog Inn</a></i><i> in Georgetown for lunch, or take a quick detour at Lincoln University and load up on some fresh mushrooms at <a href="http://www.sherrockmush.com/">Sher-Rockee Mushroom Farms</a>.</i><i> The museum is one of many attractions in the <a href="http://www.brandywinevalley.com/">Brandywine Valley</a></i><i>, so it's easy to make a day of it.</i></div>
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722498248383079216.post-71707790388479648672014-07-22T11:14:00.000-07:002014-07-22T11:28:48.778-07:00A meta-shoot of the #figlancaster Puffer Morris shoot<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"> The <i>FIG </i>team discusses the composition of the shoot, while the Puffer <br />
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<i>FIG Lancaster, </i>this city's beautifully designed, high-concept, hyper-local quarterly from the folks at Moxie House, had their camera lenses out the other evening for a photo shoot of the Puffer Morris team.<br />
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We caught up with them with our I-pad doing camera duty outside the Lancaster Public Library's central branch on Duke Street, so it seemed only right to do a meta-shoot of the <i>FIG </i>shoot. For the real deal, you'll have to check out the next edition of <i>FIG </i>to see what their camera saw.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i> FIG </i>at work: (from left) Style Director Marie Kojitani, photographer Mike Miville <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The action moves to the west side of Duke Street, while Puffer Morris <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Team Puffer Morris: (from left) Nelson Keener, Janelle Ellis, Bill Puffer, <br />
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One of The New Yorker's signature cartoons from its early, Roaring Twenties period was Ralph Barton's "The Sort of Thing That Brings Joy To The Ashman's Black Heart."</div>
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There, in the pre-dawn hours of an apartment building courtyard, a bug-eyed, sadistic hell-hound of an ash collector (this, from the day when garbage was incinerated down in the cellar) is hurling the parade of sooty, emptied cans -- bang, clatter and boom -- deep into the courtyard, simply ecstatic to wake up the entire block.</div>
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Barton, who was afflicted by depression and later died by suicide, was making a bleak statement concerning one of the enduring realities of big-city life: dealing with garbage is foul business. Not for nothing that Tony Soprano's day job was "waste management consultant."</div>
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With the world urbanizing at a rapid pace, one need not be a Manhattanite to know the misery of waking up prematurely to the roar of the collection truck, the spume of its exhaust as it rumbles through the neighborhood, and the banging of tossed emptied cans (now, at least, thankfully no longer metal). </div>
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So it's with a small measure of optimism that one reads help is perhaps on the way, in the form of <a href="http://www.governing.com/topics/transportation-infrastructure/gov-to-save-on-trash-trucks-cities-take-a-look-at-the-gas-tank.html">a new generation of waste collection vehicle </a>using quieter and much cleaner hybrid engines fueled by compressed natural gas rather than the diesel beasts currently plying our neighborhoods in the morning.</div>
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Lancaster leadership take note: we should be pressing our trash haulers to bring the dirty business of collection into the 21st Century.<br />
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Michael Stolzfus of Coldwell Banker is ushered inside by our Mary Tribble.<br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722498248383079216.post-23647487897954169202014-06-22T19:34:00.002-07:002014-06-23T12:20:37.884-07:00Lancaster the Beautiful - Money Rocks Park<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It is said that during the Civil War, Pequea Valley farmers hid their money high up in the rocky ledges of Welsh Mountain in eastern Lancaster County to safeguard it from the approaching rebel forces. After the threat passed, they climbed back up the steep hills only to find the money gone.</div>
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Today, you can drive 20 miles east of Penn Square to Narvon and clamber up those same imposing cliffs, now preserved in <a href="http://web.co.lancaster.pa.us/288/Money-Rocks-County-Park">Lancaster County's Money Rocks Park</a>. You may cross paths with a few rambling couples or families on the trail near the parking lot, but for most of the time, you'll have the 3-plus miles of moderately difficult hiking trails and spectacular vistas all to yourself -- just you and the ruffed grouse, wood thrush and wild turkey.</div>
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Here's what we saw this weekend:</div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Two intrepid climbers atop the Rocks!</td></tr>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722498248383079216.post-15218688878953655722014-06-18T12:56:00.004-07:002014-06-18T12:56:44.272-07:00My Kind Of Town<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Thinking of moving somewhere new? You may have heard
that this town was nice, but snobby; another one's shabby and maybe not so safe,
but possibly on the rise; a third one is cool and youthful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">So how do you sort out the buzz from the
beef?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For many folks looking to relocate
to a new community, the factors are pretty basic: the reputation of the
schools, property taxes, convenience to the workplace, and how much house you can
get for your money.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">For a deeper, more personalized method of
evaluating a community and whether it's right for you and your family, The New
York Times proposed in a recent <a href="http://tinyurl.com/kv8vbnm">article</a> taking what they termed a "values
audit.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While the term may be nothing
more than a bit of marketing jargon for doing your due diligence, the underlying
notion is a sound one. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">To really get a sense of whether or not a place
fits, you have try to understand the values that a community and its people
reflect and then see how they align with your own.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If that sounds amorphous or subjective, try
structuring the exercise into a series of key questions, such as these below:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-indent: -0.25in;">What are the
public priorities of the place? Is the
major concern for keeping taxes low, or economic development and job growth, or
quality public services and amenities?<br /></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-indent: -0.25in;">What is the
tone of public discourse? Do issues get
debated in a respectful and harmonious way, while allowing for disagreement and
dissenting points of view?<br /></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-indent: -0.25in;">Is there a
healthy mix of long-time families and newcomers? <br /></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-indent: -0.25in;">What can you
learn about the community from the on-line comments and letters-to-the-editor
of the local paper or from the postings on social media groups devoted to the
life of the community?<br /></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-indent: -0.25in;">Are public
officials accessible and responsive when you call their office? How about police, fire and other emergency
services?<br /></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-indent: -0.25in;">Who is
dropping off and picking up the kids at school – a lot of nannies and
caregivers, grandparents or stay-at-home dads and moms?<br /></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-indent: -0.25in;">Does the
local shopping district feel like its populated by a diversity of people, or is
it very homogenous, and if so, are they folks you feel comfortable being with?<br /></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-indent: -0.25in;">Is there a
wide availability of programs and activities that you and your family will want
or need as the years go by?<br /></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Helvetica; text-indent: -0.25in;">Are there
decent accessible medical care, social services, and transportation to meet
your needs?</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Here in Lancaster, we
are endowed with a vibrant community, full of diversity, a high quality of life
and rich in opportunity for a wide range of cultural, social, professional,
educational and leisure pursuits.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">But even a stellar
community profile does not make Lancaster – or anywhere else, for
that matter– right for everyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So go
ahead and ask some questions of your own that occur to you. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Put a place to the test against the things
that matter in your life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Once you start, you soon
see that taking the measure of a community and how well you and your loved ones
would flourish in it is a rich exploration that tells you as much about yourself
and your personal values as that of the place where you are thinking about
putting down roots.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Yes, we know that San Francisco is probably the hottest real estate market in America -- some would say that the City by the Bay isn't America at all, but some otherworldly Avalon of mythic origin.</div>
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Certainly the steamed-up housing market is reaching mythic proportions, nowhere more so than the Bernal Heights neighborhood, the hilly residential community south of the Mission District.</div>
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Just look at some of <a href="http://tinyurl.com/llhg52w">these outlandish prices</a> being fetched for cottages on postage stamp lots. The average sales price in April was over $ 1-million for these tiny charmers -- and no one doubts that they are charming. But 78 percent appreciation in two years on a place that didn't get a stick of renovation in the interim? </div>
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As one dizzied resident put it on the Bernal community blog, "WTF?" </div>
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No, we don't get real estate vertigo like that here in Lancaster -- but maybe that's a good thing.</div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722498248383079216.post-15774179317601692852014-06-06T05:29:00.000-07:002014-06-06T06:20:21.482-07:00Only 2 Hours From Penn Square: Whistler Like You’ve Never Seen Him<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The Freer-Sackler Galleries, side-by-side
repositories of the Smithsonian's Asian art collection, also house one of the
finest and largest gatherings of work by James McNeill Whistler, the
American-born painter who decamped for London where he advanced the radical
vision of JMW Turner toward the
flowering of 20th Century abstraction.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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1834-1903</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;"> Now through Aug. 17 in the Sackler is the
landmark Whistler exhibition, "An American in London: Whistler and the
Thames."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brought together for the
first time US and UK collections are some 80 of Whistler's London scenes --
many centered on the great city's great arterial waterway.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">This exhibition is the most significant showing
of Whistler in more than two decades.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For Lancastrians, it is a privileged opportunity for a day trip to
Washington to experience one of the masters in full.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Arriving as a young man in London in 1859,
having left West Point to study etching at the US Geodetic Survey and painting
in Paris, Whistler was very much a contemporary of Dickens: steeped in the
novelist’s remorseless portrayal of London's squalor, inequalities and virile
industrial tumult.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But no Victorian moralist
was he -- rather, Whistler's concern was all form, light and color, the very
elements that soon would come to define the modernist revolution he prefigures.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Like Turner -- as well as Monet -- he explores
the misty, indistinct and impermanent vistas of the riverscape with restrained emotion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He also brings to life the seedy and roguish
characters of the waterfront, as in “Wapping”, a Renoir-like pub scene of two
sailors and a lady weighing her options, with the daily commotion of the docks
and river spread out behind them.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">By contrast, a corner of the gallery space is given to work displaying Whistler's fascination (as with the West,
generally) with all things Japanese.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He
sets pastel-colored proper English women in geisha poses -- complete with
kimono and chrysanthemum -- on a balcony overlooking the grey river and the looming
charcoal tones of Battersea on the opposite shore. He even signs the work with a butterfly icon.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">To complete the contrast, the gallery offers
through July 27 a companion exhibition, much smaller in scale, of Kobayashi
Kiyochika woodblock prints of Tokyo scenes from the same period.</span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Whistler’s great London works
challenged the Victorian establishment, and he ultimately fled England for the
continent in disgust at the negative critical reception he received. As
this stunning display of virtuosity confirms, Whistler’s detractors were
shortsighted: his work endures for the ages.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica;">Get up and go:</span></i><span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />
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</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, located at 1050
Independence Avenue S.W., and the adjacent Freer Gallery of Art, located at
12th Street and Independence Avenue S.W., are on the National Mall in
Washington, D.C. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. every day (closed Dec. 25), and
admission is free. The galleries are located near the Smithsonian Metrorail
station on the Blue and Orange lines. For more information about the Freer and
Sackler galleries and their exhibitions, programs and other public events,
visit </span></i><a href="https://www.asia.si.edu/default.asp"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 0in;">www.asia.si.edu</span></i></a><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: #222222; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">. For general Smithsonian
information, call (202) 633-1000<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722498248383079216.post-16056685252947290472014-05-25T08:40:00.000-07:002014-05-26T04:32:59.068-07:00Rent or Buy? It really is up to you.<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The New York Times has fomented a lively discussion
in the comments section of last Thursday’s <span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/22/upshot/rent-or-buy-the-math-is-changing.html"><span style="color: blue;">article</span></a></span> on whether renting or buying
a home makes better sense these days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The answer -- as it's always been -- is that it
depends on many variables, but most particularly it depends on the home and on
you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Still, the Times </span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">makes some important points about how one analyzes
the financial aspects of what is not always a straightforward decision.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And it offers up a really cool <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/upshot/buy-rent-calculator.html"><span style="color: blue;">online tool</span></a>
for figuring the various financial ingredients that go into the decision-making
cauldron; ingredients such as the price of the house and interest rate, of
course; but also less prominent ones like how long you intend to occupy the
place, the rate of inflation and the opportunity costs of not putting one's
assets into alternative forms of investment.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The calculator weighs 21 distinct factors clustered into eight broad
categories: home price, length of stay, mortgage terms, projected future price
increases, taxes, closing costs, maintenance and fees, and additional rental
costs like the security deposit and broker’s fee. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">In major metropolitan areas, notably New York, Boston, Washington,
San Francisco and Los Angeles, house prices gone up to the point that some fear
a bubble is forming, and renting – never a bargain in any of those cities – is
looking more and more like the better deal.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">Central Pennsylvania and Lancaster particularly are much less
volatile markets, subject to less rapid appreciation and much less turbulence
after a cycle has peaked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">We’re reminded in the end that the most important variable in making
the ownership versus rental decision is captured in the old saw about location.
And it bears noting that there are locations within locations, such as the neighborhood-to-neighborhood
differences in market dynamics between, say, downtown Lancaster, Grandview
Heights, Chestnut Hill and Hamilton Park.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">So go have some fun with the New York Times’
nifty calculator tool, but also be mindful of what one of the online
commentators – Dora of Brooklyn – observed: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">“People don't seem to see a house or apartment as a home
anymore, a place that grows roots, neighbors, that over-used word, community.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is a part of life that shouldn’t
always be monetized if you don't have to.</span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">”</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Helvetica;"><br />When all is said and done, the best informed decisions are often the
ones that take full account of what your heart tells you as well as your
pocketbook.</span></div>
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722498248383079216.post-23983656586461164292014-05-15T09:30:00.001-07:002014-05-15T11:08:38.693-07:00Get On Your Bike And Ride -- And Don't Stop There<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12.0pt; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none;">
Friday is <a href="http://dreamrideprojects.org/projects/air-quality-partnership-of-the-susquehanna/lancaster-hub-helping-to-utilize-bicycling/">National Bike-to-Work Day</a> and Lancaster is all-in with the Spoke'n Gear Bicycle Expo at the Southern
Market Center on South Queen Street.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">We love the daily cycling commute -- it's a great way to get your head
into a productive day and even better to leave the office behind in the
evening.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And of course Lancaster is one
of the most enjoyable settings in the country for cyclists at all levels.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">But riders always need to be mindful and alert to the inescapable conflict for pavement between motorists and themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A small number of drivers are downright
hostile -- boors and morons they are -- but most are simply unaware of the
hazards their vehicles present.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Share-the-road
signage and other educational steps help, but the reality of competition for
limited road space between two objects of different sizes and weights and
moving at different speeds is a structural inevitability of the road and street
network.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">More bicycle infrastructure -- dedicated lanes, paths and trails -- will
be welcome, but these can be expensive and sometimes controversial.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Another measure we support is traffic
calming, to slow those cars down, particularly in urban centers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Traffic calming also costs money, but a few years ago Lancaster city
leaders tried a novel, low-cost <a href="http://lancasteronline.com/news/traffic-calming-lines-paint-out-speed/article_2d23a7f8-1bdb-5591-8e37-36de6a4f3242.html?mode=story">approach</a> -- narrowing traffic lanes on East
King Street with painted lane lines.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> We wondered what became of that promising experiment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">Now, Bill DeBlasio's new administration in New York City is making
traffic safety its highest transportation priority and is looking closely at
what <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/14/nyregion/a-safety-plan-with-swedish-logic-and-city-smarts.html?_r=1">Stockholm </a>(no surprise in that) has done to make motorists smarter, safer
drivers.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V9AEKyzZZes/U3TrNOV1T6I/AAAAAAAAAIk/RpM9l0k4llQ/s1600/bike2work.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-V9AEKyzZZes/U3TrNOV1T6I/AAAAAAAAAIk/RpM9l0k4llQ/s1600/bike2work.jpg" height="240" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Our friends at It's Modern Art on W. Chestnut St. have the right idea.</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: Times; mso-bidi-font-family: Times;">More
people getting on their bikes, we believe, will help the roads become safer --
but it is only one piece of a complex set of strategies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We're certain of this: safer, calmer, bike
friendlier streets and roads make communities more pleasant, more attractive
and more productive.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That, and always
wear your helmet.</span><o:p></o:p></div>
Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722498248383079216.post-23428713933465829052014-05-12T04:18:00.000-07:002014-05-12T04:18:10.169-07:00Getting Over The Loan Qualification High Hurdles<div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; tab-stops: .5in 1.0in 1.5in 2.0in 2.5in 3.0in 3.5in 4.0in 4.5in 5.0in 5.5in 6.0in; text-autospace: none;">
<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The market for buying and selling a home has
lately been a tale of countervailing forces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Inventory has been low for an extended period and that puts upward
pressure on prices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Borrowing rates
remain low, as well, meaning buyers can afford more and can bid higher.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">But borrowing is tougher than it's been in
decades, as banks -- chastened by the excesses of the 2008 financial meltdown
-- have maintained tight-fisted lending standards to the point they are a major
drag on the housing recovery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">The Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch website
<a href="http://www.marketwatch.com/story/banks-keeping-mortgage-standards-tight-2014-05-05">reported </a></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica;">just the other day that "</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">the housing
sector has become one of the few troublesome spots in the economy this year,
with some analysts pointing to tight credit as a major factor."<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial;">The chart below displays the number of
lending institutions reporting to the Federal Reserve whether their lending
standards are easing or tightening.</span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial;">All
categories of borrowing have been getting tighter in 2014, even prime loans,
though less sharply than other types.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Mortgage credit has "taken a
step back," the story quotes one leading analyst from TD Bank, and these
tighter lending standards will slow the market further.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For those buyers who qualify for credit, the trend means fewer
competitors to bid up prices -- even considering the reduced stock of inventory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But qualifying is more frustrating than it's
been in a very long time, and as a result, some buyers are turning toward
alternative credit products that are easier to obtain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Bankrate.com has <a href="http://www.bankrate.com/finance/mortgages/housing-trends-2.aspx">found</a> that more affordable but higher risk
adjustable-rate mortgages are staging a comeback </span><span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial;">and, as homeowners have seen equity recover, home-equity credit
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<span style="color: #262626; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We’ve even seen some creative homeowners use their existing
equity to leverage the next purchase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We
had a recent client looking to buy here in Lancaster without selling their
out-of-state property, which has built up significant equity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By taking a line of home-equity credit on
that place, they were able to finance their purchase here, both cheaper and
without the hoop-jumping of qualifying that now attends to a traditional mortgage
loan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4722498248383079216.post-78147433946396767952014-05-05T10:15:00.000-07:002014-05-05T11:01:30.369-07:00Welcome to the Lancaster NotebookWelcome to our new blog on our newly redesigned website. <br />
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We're calling our blog <i>Lancaster Notebook </i>because we want it to be a reflection of our own love and continuous rediscovery of Pennsylvania's most dynamic, attractive and fascinating small city, Lancaster.<br />
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We will be posting to our blog regularly to share with you the goings-on and things-to-do all around the Red Rose City and environs, as well as keep you informed of important information you can use if you're thinking about buying or selling a home or property here.<br />
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While you're here, please go to our <a href="http://www.puffermorris.com/">website</a>, then follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/PufferMorris">Twitter</a>, and give us a "like" on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/puffermorris">Facebook</a>.<br />
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We welcome your feedback and suggestions and we're looking forward to making this blog an active and fun community, all revolving around our favorite place of all.<br />
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