Greensboro's Urban Loop Could We Get A 3-d Visual Like The 485 in Charlotte Video Embedded

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There has been a lot of talk about the urban loop coming through Greensboro . It would be great to get a rendering like the one embedded above on the Greensboro Urban Loop coming through the Northern parts of Greensboro and Guilford County.

Here is a few links to the Greensboro Urban Loop coming through Greensboro

Greensboro City's Official web site CLICKHERE
Ex Mayor Johnson on Urban Loop CLICKHERE
Battle Forest post on Vie De Malchance blog CLICKHERE

This issue of the urban loop coming through Northern Greensboro and Guilford County should be on everyone's radar screen. This is a major transportation project that will change the whole landscape of all who live around this area especially near lawndale and battleground avenue.

Ethics and the Aerotropolis of the Triad

Many Triad residents are outraged by the current lack of ethics, accountability and responsibility in our land-use and transportation planning processes in our region and state. An article from the Greensboro News & Record CLICKHERE indicating the intent of developers and "Aerotropolis" planners to meet with the NC General Assembly on Wednesday to request future state funding of this effort.

Please consider the failing state of our bridges and infrastructure and failing air quality. Please consider that North Carolina leads the nation in the number of acres of lost farmland, even though agri-business is our largest and most stable economic comtributor.

Is there any reason that an "AUTHORITY" such as PART or PTIA, (chartered by the NC General Assembly) should not be covered by the State Government Ethics Act? Since N.C.G.S.14-23.1 specifically states it is to cover elected and appointed officials who serve or represent a public agency, would you say that one who has been elected to the Greensboro City Council, has been appointed to lead the Metropolitan Planning Organization and Transportation Advisory Committee that plans roads for northern Guilford County, serves on the Board of Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation and who owns NAI Piedmont Triad real estate brokerage who is trying to develop property throughout the Heart of the Triad area, upon whose Steering Committee he sits would be exempt from the provisions of this statute? Is there any reason that members of the Piedmont Triad Partnership economic development group, (that also receives state funding) should function without ethical restraint? Perhaps Brent McKinney, Executive Director of the Piedmont Authority for Regional Transportation and the Piedmont Triad Airport Authority leadership might reference the Code of Ethics for Triangle Transit Authority [NC] Board of Trustees found on page #61 of Ethics in Public Life by A. Fleming Bell, II. It can be obtained through the Institute of Government at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The article I reference follows. Thank you for your consideration of this request to oppose state funding of the "Aerotropolis" planning scheme.

Respectfully,
Cathy M. Poole

Full Disclosure of the Greensboro Urban Loop Compliments of Vie De Malchance

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This is a full disclosure memo to the citizens of northern Greensboro North Carolina. FEC over at Vie De Malchance CLICKHERE has a great post titled "Battle Forest". In the post you will see the location of the loop in detail pictures starting at around cotswold terrace and ending up at Highway 29. If you live in this area of Greensboro and wanted to see a close up of where the loop is going to be in regards to your house please check out this post.

Also FEC has started a wiki on the URBAN LOOP and it is a great place to see everything you need to see about the urban loop and all the developers in the loop area as well in the northern part of the loop. Here is the link to the WIKI

CLICKHERE and here is the front page of the wiki

"This wiki (What I Know Is) is for Greensboro citizens to track imprudent use of her resources for personal gain. I intend to initially concentrate on property developers who built homes in the proposed northern path of the Urban Loop. "

NCDOT + Greensboro City Council + Project Homestead=Government Waste

Triad Citizens Against Government Waste with the honor going to NCDOT with help from the Greensboro City Council and a posthumous recognition to Project Homestead with help from Michael King who had the Greensboro CIty Council wrapped around his finger .

Great article on the front page of the Greensboro News & Record by Taft Wireback CLICKHERE or click on the title above.

This is also a warning to all residents of Northern Greensboro if you can see the map it shows the interchanges that will take out a lot of land and houses for the loop to meet with Bryan Boulevard. There will be major interchanges at yanceyville street,elm street, lawndale dr. and battleground avenue.

This map also has it saying," North Carolina Department of Transportation finalized the location for all sections of the loop in 1996. Detailed plans and schedules are available at the NCDOT Division 7 office and GDOT Administrative office." As you can see from the picture above

If you take the above statement and the map above with the interchanges then why in the hell did quail oaks subdivision ever get built. The reason I say this is because in article it states that Project Homestead bought the land in 2000 but as the map states the loop interchanges were finalized in 1996 which is 4 years earlier.


There are a lot of questions that need to be answered and hope Taft Wireback will also follow up on this issue.