On Monday, Nov. 20, the City of Greensboro released its latest report as to how things are going with regard to the implementation of the city’s strategic plan for the year 2040. The city still has 16 years and a month to get where it needs to be with regard to the GSO2040 Comprehensive Plan goals – however, even right now, in 2023, city staff and others are already working towards the plan’s lofty goals.
One goal of the long-range strategic plan is for Greensboro to become “Car Optional.”
To that end, a feasibility study is now underway for an east Greensboro greenway. Greensboro city staff are exploring potential routes for the expected roughly five-mile greenway that’s meant to connect the downtown Greensboro area to various recreational and cultural destinations in the eastern parts of the city.
Another goal of GSO2040 is to “ensure the availability of supportive and transitional housing.” The city’s “Doorway Project” is once again this year providing temporary winter housing for the homeless: The Housing and Neighborhood Development Department deployed the pallet shelters earlier in November to provide some shelter before the weather turns too cold.
Another comprehensive plan goal for city officials is to work toward strengthening communities and making neighborhoods safer.
As one way to advance this goal, the Greensboro Police Department and the Ole Asheboro neighborhood hosted an event this fall that included a neighborhood clean-up and provided “an opportunity for resource providers to talk to residents on a variety of topics.”
Other past and present implementations of the plan can be found online. People who want to keep up-to-date on the progress of the GSO2040 Comprehensive Plan can sign up to receive an e-mail whenever a new report is posted online.
Just fill out the contact information on the e-Notify webpage at the city’s website and select “GSO2040” in the “News” section to subscribe.
Blah, blah, blah.
Most people know what “car optional” means. It means a car will no longer be optional, unless you are in govt, or have special favors, or lots of cash, etc.
The simple way for the city and council to help is to reduce the tax rate so people and businesses have a better chance at it. Reduce regulation.
Give the GPD the means to police the city, and give them full support; such as the best pay in the state, a DA who will prosecute.
Yes Miller, “Car optional” is their innocent term for waging a war on our cars. Look for road humps, progressive lowering of speed limits to ridiculously low levels, “Gotcha Cameras” to fine you when you dare drive at normal speeds, and ultimately, charges that will be imposed just for driving along the public highway (that you paid for). The last will include a VMT (Vehicle Miles Tax) and/or a fee for just driving into your town (“Congestion Charge”).
The political Left is determined to take away our cars & trucks, and our personal freedom.
All pixie dust. These clowns increase taxes and reduce city benefits. You soon will not need a car with all the leaves scattered in the streets. Keep on voting the same way with the same old same old results.
All the leaves on the streets are how they plan to convert them into greenways.
Es verdad. The voters who bothered to show up elected our local govt. How about the 80-85% of voters who did not bother to show up at the polls when the city & county were having their elections?
Perhaps I’m naive, but I expected them at least to throw us a bone with their lofty and high-minded goals.
But no.
As the city of Greensboro is extracting a record amount of money from the people they profess to serve, nowhere in their statement of goals is there even a hint of providing us some tax relief.
The political Left believes in the state, the government, the “public sector”, the Parasitic Sector,and the coercive power of it all. They demand ever increasing funding for their God – government. They are amoral, and generally closet control freaks, and borderline psychopaths who require continual adulation. In other words, they are drawn to government, where they can indulge their fantasies.
They are not normal. They are most of the Greensboro City Council.