tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7417847976778607501.post6228596880138141545..comments2023-08-06T06:24:02.547-05:00Comments on In The Bluff (the blog): Into the Woodsmarycashhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11723540914036793887noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7417847976778607501.post-11184121864432803992008-08-18T11:39:00.000-05:002008-08-18T11:39:00.000-05:00Its always been a balance between development and ...Its always been a balance between development and preservation. The problem with "balance" in the case of The Old Forest is that compromise and "balance" mean that something is always given up (more forest land and trees), and the Forest becomes smaller and smaller. If "balance" continues as a policy, then eventually, there is no more Old Forest. At some point, you have to say "enough." Stop. IMO, we have reached that point.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7417847976778607501.post-17355864028717309972008-08-15T21:33:00.000-05:002008-08-15T21:33:00.000-05:00It's a precarious balance between development and ...It's a precarious balance between development and preservation in Overton Park and it has been since I was a little boy and they were feuding over the I-40 corridor, having already torn down what would have been a delightful architectural extension of Midtown, embodied in the "old growth" bungalows of Binghampton spreading east from the Parkway. I would offer that at least we're now talking about expansion of something more potentially aesthetically pleasing than a freeway, but proponents of the old hardwood forest likely should have an inherent advantage given that the zoo is already well-attended and much-loved (and of this I'm speaking entirely sentimentally, having no real handle on the numbers) because, really, once the Old Forest is depleted we'll have to pick up the old Peter Taylor tome to remember the resplendence that it once was. Maybe we should chain a bear within the park again; that once seemed to be a real crowd-pleaser.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com