KCRag Forum

DaveKCMO wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2019 10:17 pm

normalthings wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2019 10:00 pm Matt Staub is another candidate who is behind the same sort of proposals as StrongTowns.

Do you mean Eric Bunch? Staub isn't running this cycle.

normalthings wrote: ↑Sun May 12, 2019 10:00 pm You are essentially advocating for them to take a few StrongTowns lectures.

Strong Towns presented to local chambers and politicians last year. Mayor Alvey of KCK was a big fan. Surprisingly, Mayor James was not into it at all.

Justus is generally in line with a lot of what Strong Town proposes(neighborhood investment, complete streets, slowing traffic, transit options). Matt Staub is another candidate who is behind the same sort of proposals as StrongTowns.

wahoowa wrote: ↑Mon May 13, 2019 9:39 am staub was the one with the great video after the kander/justus announcements round 1, right? did he have an opportunity to get back in after kander withdrew or had the deadline passed?

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Today, at 319 square miles, Kansas City is nearly four times as large as it was in 1950, and most of that new land is outfitted with infrastructure. Yet the city’s population has hardly changed.

As a result, each resident is responsible for at least four times as much infrastructure as our predecessors.

While Kansas City grew more than most U.S. cities, many are in the same predicament. Geographical growth, without a corresponding growth in population, is fundamentally why cities struggle to afford the infrastructure they’ve built.

Over the past 70 years, we’ve extended our boundaries, but not kept-up with associated costs of infrastructure.

In 2019, Kansas City could afford to budget only 10 percent of what our Public Works Department recommended to return the condition of our streets to “fair” — not to good or great, just fair.
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