Santo Domingo.- Residents of the sectors Mirador Sur and Julieta complained that the National District City Council’s (ADN) New Urban Planning Norms makes the population density limits flexible in some exclusive zones.
The controversy is the latest in the woes surfacing in several areas of Santo Domingo which started in the exclusive sector Naco, when a prestigious architect described it with the now historic expression “a sewage time bomb.”
Leopoldo Franco, of Julieta, and Silverio Martinez, of Mirador Sur, together with several of their neighbors visited the ADN’s Urban Planning Commission, headed by Andres Martinez, to object the construction of high-rises and shopping centers in residential zones described as “calm.”
Franco, the architect who designed the exclusive residential subdivision Las Praderas, said the many high-rises and businesses around Julieta would cause a “collapse” of its streets, to the point frequent failures of public services.
In that regard Silverio, ex head of the Land Transit Office, complained that the authorities authorize mega constructions without preparing the zone to support the higher demand for electricity, water and storm drainage. “It’s been my experience that the City Council, in a macro-historical manner, doesn’t intervene in issues of interest regarding constructions, and the few times it does it complicate things.”
Franco and Silverio said 14 businesses in Julieta and 12 in Mirador Sur were built which don’t comply with of those residential zones’ population density norms, and don’t have the City Council’s approval to operate in the area. “We‘ve filed more than 30 complaints in the City Council for several years and their response has been unsatisfactory.”
Written by: juanb, 23 Sep 2009 8:58 AM
From: Dominican Republic
Just do whatever you want. There are no rules.
From: United States
What about following procedures? Hey what the heck, screw procedures, lets make money!!!
Written by: xwill7, 23 Sep 2009 11:37 AM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
Monkey see monkey do
Written by: xwill7, 23 Sep 2009 12:14 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
don't flush toilet paper down the drain! lol
From: United States
really? you mean that i was correct when i informed Mr Dom that these buildings are going up without proper preparation, and will lead to environmental debacles, overloading of emergency capacitites, and undue pressure on a fragile infrastructure? maybe Ricardolito will chime in and say that all these guys are just negativists, who want to spoil the party. after all, who cares if the streets collapse, the garbage collection system overloads, and the electricity grids, whatever those are, cannot stand the density of the structures? we are making progress!
Written by: xwill7, 23 Sep 2009 2:21 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
I think that 90% of buildings in DR are built without following the building codes. Its like putting bondo on an old rusty car... the rust will come out sooner or later
From: United States
xwill, the question i asked of the celebrants of the tall buildings is what would happen if there was a fire on the 25th floor. they answered that concrete buildings do not go on fire. i reminded them that the contents sometimes do.
Written by: xwill7, 23 Sep 2009 2:43 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
dread,
who ever thinks that the inside of a concrete apartment won't burn should look at the video of this hotel that burned...
Its on the frontpage of this site, just press play:
http://sajoma.com/Written by: josean, 23 Sep 2009 4:01 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
I have stated it before and I will state it again, a 7 to 10 year moratorium on building in La Capital Oh, excuse me I mean Santo Calcutta to allow the infrastructure to catch up and to have rules and regulations controlling un-regulated development implemented.
This will:
1. Improve quality of life in the capital,
2. alleviate traffic congestion,
3. increase property values in the city as existing space will be at prime,
4. as well as spur development in the other sections of the country therefore increasing property values and creating local jobs.
5. and would also disincentives’ people from moving to La Capital as the only hope for upward mobility or survival, as a start to begin eliminating the ever expanding slums.
This would be a win for all if planned, developed, implement correctly, fairly and with TOTAL transparency.
Other than that be prepared to open the faucet in your nice apt. and find excrement coming out of the tap in the very near future!
From: United States
Josean, that is why you are THE DEAN! now just wait for Ricky Romana to remind you that all is well, and the middle class will be fine, even if they are trapped on the 26th floor in an inferno, because we have no cherry pickers or water pressure to service such eventualities.
Written by: xwill7, 23 Sep 2009 4:31 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
the fire hose or ladder wont reach. Also, the fire truck will probably be stuck in traffic
From: United States
i hope they get sirius abaout this mater, beutiful contry bad goberments...................
From: Dominican Republic, La Romana
I'll take Punta Cana any day over living in the biggest parking lot in the country, in the dark and without running water any day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Written by: ElProfe 
, 23 Sep 2009 9:51 PM
From: Dominican Republic, Jarabacoa
What about sewer treatment plants, or do we just keep feeding the fish.
Written by: anthonyC, 24 Sep 2009 12:14 AM
From: United States
"Written by: josean, 23 Sep 2009 4:01 PM
From: United States
I have stated it before and I will state it again, a 7 to 10 year moratorium on building in La Capita"
Honestly. tell me the truth! Are you a complete idiot or just have a really silly sense of humor.
A 7-10 year building moratorium? Do you have even the slightest clue on what that would do to the economy? Think great depression times 3!
Written by: xwill7, 24 Sep 2009 10:03 AM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
elprofe,
yes, please treat the sewage
Written by: josean, 24 Sep 2009 11:36 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Written by: anthonyC, 24 Sep 2009 11:52 AM
From: United States
Josie,
I will ignore the lame attempt at changing the subject.
Lets see how you plan works out.
7-10 no new construction.
Just in the industry alone who many people will that affect? COnstruction workers, Suppliers, architects. engineers, drivers, finance.........it would basically put tens of thousands of people out of work.
Now go and look at other business. Companies would be able to expand. No more office space. No more retail space.
What about the people? Get married, have some kids.......can't find a new place.
Even an idiot could see that a building moratorium is economic suicide. GROW OR DIE.
Written by: josean, 24 Sep 2009 11:57 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
My comment was made for persons who have commonsense, which gusantitos like you have proven to the world for almost five decades that they have none.
Written by: anthonyC, 24 Sep 2009 2:21 PM
From: United States
Poor, ignorant, jealous Josie.
Firmly planted his foot in his mouth now resorting to infantile, insults to deflect logic.
Poor baby.
Run along now.....your mommy is calling.
Written by: josean, 24 Sep 2009 3:04 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
In Webster Dictionary the definition of infantile:
Gusanito NASCAR fan i.e. anthonyC
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
I think that everyone who lives in central SD or visits there can see all the new construction and I think the next area will be in the Herrera area where the big Jumbo is ..already Naco is a nightmare to drive in during most of the day and like wise parts of Gazcue and along Independencia.. .the capital seems to be growing so quickly but especially in central SD. so many new apartment buildings and shopping areas.
I do not know if the sewerage lines and plants can cope with the increased growth in the growing areas between Kennedy and el Malecon but I know that I would not like to live there.
It seems as if many building standards around the world only become stronger after a tragedy but i hope it does not need a major tragedy here before proper licences for builders are introduced , before fire standards are introduced , before concrete pours are supervised by authorities and cores provided , before electrical installations are approved and before proper water supplies are provided
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
It seems that no proper construction standards have ever been introduced here and that the country has been very lucky to avoid a major disaster ..
In some ways it reminds me of Thailand and especially Bangkok where a low rise city with a low income population changed into a high rise city with rising incomes fairly rapidly and during this change there were many shortcuts in construction standards and there have now been many tragedies ..
Urban planning is so important for enjoyable and safe living and I have a feeling that SD is growing quicker than the planners have planned for.
Written by: josean, 24 Sep 2009 3:58 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Ricardolito,
Being an economist I am sure you understand the concept of reaching “the point of diminishing returns.” Well a variation of that concept is what is happening in Santo Calcutta.
A planned moratorium is the possibly the only way-out of this nightmare.
Written by: xwill7, 24 Sep 2009 4:07 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
I saw a video of a building in thiland tip and fall. it was gone in a few seconds
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
Josean for a short time I lived in Calcutta and as a coincidence they also built a metro from an area called Tollygunge and under the main street of Chowringree and as another coincidence the very central area became an absolute nightmare with so much development and not sufficient infrastructure or planning controls ..When I was there the population was more than 12 million but goodness knows how many now but actually the underground was and still is a great success .
But nothing can compare to the way Bangkok has reduced much of it´s transport problems with the construction of their sky train ..much cheaper than the underground that they also have now ..The cost of a day ticket is about 110 bhat which is about $3. Also the skytrain in Kuala Lumpur has been a great success
I would prefer us to look at these Asian countries that have emerged over the past decade from third world status to good economies than looking at the European countries for inspiration
Written by: xwill7, 24 Sep 2009 4:42 PM
From: United States, El cuarto bate
Can't wait until they connect SD to Santiago
Written by: josean, 24 Sep 2009 6:02 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Make sure you’re sitting down while you wait so you don't get varicose veins!
Written by: anthonyC, 24 Sep 2009 11:25 PM
From: United States
Josie,
If you want to feel good about your self get a porn DVD and some baby oil.
A building moratorium is economic suicide.
From: United States
that, Anthonyc, is only applicable if the city is not currently overbuilt. there are countries that declared moratoria on importation of certain products because of excess inventory, and it did not cause "economic suicide". housing is also a commodity. if it is overproduced in a laissez faire manner, the externalities are far greater than the losses which will accrue to the construction sector in the event of a moratorium.
From: United States
and, Anthony, just so you will possibly disabuse yourself of the idea that Josean is delusional, this headline is for your perusal
Permitting developments in downtown Kirkland will be blocked by a proposed moratorium, to be considered by City Council on Sept. 16.
Katherine Ganter/ Reporter Newspapers
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Kirkland City Council considering downtown building moratorium
From: United States
and, Anthony, just so you will possibly disabuse yourself of the idea that Josean is delusional, this headline is for your perusal
Permitting developments in downtown Kirkland will be blocked by a proposed moratorium, to be considered by City Council on Sept. 16.
Katherine Ganter/ Reporter Newspapers
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Kirkland City Council considering downtown building moratorium
Written by: josean, 25 Sep 2009 7:01 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
dread,
He, ASS-umes that the moratorium is all that I am proposing. It appears that he has spent all his live listening to Mas Canosa and Rush Dumba and has not learned or developed the skills to think on his own.
A moratorium has to be planned and coordinated with island wide development program as to not dislocate people from employment or investment opportunities. In Puerto Rico almost from the beginning of "Operation Bootstrap" economic incentives were given to American companies in the area of tax incentives and abatements to locate in the Island. If the company wanted larger incentives or tax abatements for 10, 20, 25 etcetera, they need to establish themselves in the more economically deprived areas. That is one of the reasons when you go to PR you see a more equal development throughout the Island as opposed to most other Latin American nations were everything is concentrated on capital-metropolis.
continued:
Written by: josean, 25 Sep 2009 7:02 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
You see there are thousands of models of national development that can be used, with a combination of a moratorium and incentives to make it attractive to building entrepreneurs to seek opportunities out of Santo Calcutta. Also those workers that may not find employment in outright building of new structures would then be able to work on the development and rebuilding of infrastructure.
When the automobile came into being many ac of that era also said what would be come of the those that work in the horse and buggy industry, well the went to work in the car industry. Lucky ac was not around in that era because in addition to overcrowding in Santo Calcutta, we would be knee deep in horse manure.
I thought that any rational person would have interpreted from my initial posting that a moratorium would require a master development plan that would encompass the whole country not just the pet projects of the Dominican elites in la capital.
continued:
Written by: josean, 25 Sep 2009 7:04 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
But dread, as you well know, rationality has never been one of the strong traits of the “Cubanitos in Miami” has it!
Written by: anthonyC, 25 Sep 2009 9:01 PM
From: United States
Dread,
Your defense of a building moratorium is a town called Kirkland?
Kirkland?
A small suburb of Seattle?
A town(Not a city) made up of aging hippies and limosine liberals?
A town where it's only "industry"(If you can call it that) is a dying art gallery district downtown?
Give me a F*cking Break.
Written by: anthonyC, 25 Sep 2009 9:03 PM
From: United States
I defy any of you guys to name me one major city with serious industry that has applied a building moratorium that was in any way sucessful!
I dare you!
Just try!
Written by: josean, 25 Sep 2009 9:59 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
"made up of aging hippies and limosine liberals?"
See what I mean about not thinking for himself; right out of rightwing radio!
Written by: josean, 25 Sep 2009 10:17 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
anthonyC,
I am sure we can find examples for your majesty, but even if they weren't a single one in the universe that shouldn't stop people from seriously studying its possibility. But like a good little neo-know nothing republican, no ideas and no proposal, as well as say no too everything is your modus operandi.
The United States or anyone one else had never gone to the moon either but that didn't stop them from trying and making it possible.
You see ac when things are not working you try something new and if works its called innovation, if you don’t its called stagnation and if you repeat the same thing over and over expecting a different result its called Insanity or is it Hannity, in any case it’s the same.
But then again you probably don’t believe in evolution and really think the world was made in 7days and Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs.
PS here is your home work assignment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_NothingFrom: United States
you see, anthony, a small city is only a microcosm of a large city. the issues are just magnified in scope, but not in aspect. so, everything which causes a small town to consider a moratorium is applicable in a large town, but on a BIGGER SCALE. know what that means? the problems are even greater in big cities, making the need more urgent. go ponder. Kirkland might see the need to stop until the infrastructure can support its small population. Santo Domingo should see the need to stop until the infrastucture can support its large population. i realise that laissez faire capitalists like you only see things in dollars and cents. some of us will be very upset if the city attracts 6 million people, and gets hit by a natural disaster, which wipes out a few hundred thousand because the streets are impassable. you only woory about the developers, who can flee in the awaiting yacht. not everyone is so fortunate to own an ocean liner.
From: Dominican Republic, vieja Santo Domingo
you see Anthony C , no matter what you write you will be called all sorts of names and your view will be ridiculed so I suggest you do as I and not respond. But to make you feel better , I am 100% sure that no administration here will introduce a 7 to 10 years construction moratorium so you will surely be correct.
Written by: josean, 26 Sep 2009 10:31 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
"no administration"
That is precisely the problem Mr. Romana NO administration its al improvisation like the METRO. That why it has become Santo Calcutta!
You guys are so desperate to defend the un-defendable LIE-onel Fernandez and the PLD criminals, that you suspend rational thought (if you ever had it) and reality.
Anyone that can not see that Santo Domingo is unsustainable chaos rapped in unmanageability has to be deaf, dumb and blind.
Written by: anthonyC, 26 Sep 2009 11:17 PM
From: United States
Josie and Dready,
Give up?
Josie just trys to change the subject and Dready tries to spin ridiculous claims by using psuedo-intellectual, multi-syllabic terms which are incorrect.
Anybody who considers a suburb as a microcosm of a major city is just plain ignorant. A suburb does not rely on business and industry to survive. Those are in other municipalities....hence the term "Suburb"
sub·urb
/'s?b?rb/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [suhb-urb] Show IPA
–noun
1. a district lying immediately outside a city or town, esp. a smaller residential community.
2. the suburbs, the area composed of such districts.
3. an outlying part.
Written by: josean, 27 Sep 2009 8:48 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
dread,
Progress; he is actually using or at least attempting to use a dictionary rather than using rightwing talking points.
'Give up?"
Words for El Excilo Cubano to live by!
Written by: anthonyC, 27 Sep 2009 8:59 AM
From: United States
Josie gives up!
Dready?
Written by: josean, 27 Sep 2009 9:04 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
Like at the Bay of Pigs?
From: United States
anthonyc, stay with formula one, and take Ricky Romana with you. you have no clue what you are talking about. how does industry enter into this equation? we are talking exclusively about the interface between population and infrastructure. it is an issue solely of MAGNITUDE, not geography. the difference between Kirkland and Santo Domingo is that in Kirkland, a traffic delay is when the local high school marching band goes through an intersection, and, in Santo Domingo it is when you need an hour to get a half mile. SCOPE, not ASPECT. so, if there is a storm headed to Kirkland, you may need to evacuate 369 people. in the case of the capital here, that could be 100,000 people. same concept, different magnitude. same ASPECT, different SCOPE. and, the words sound intellectual to you, but that is not my fault. you are the one who chose to drop out of school in the 7th grade.
Written by: anthonyC, 27 Sep 2009 8:10 PM
From: United States
Dready you are soooooooooo wrong.
A building moratorium in a suburban enclave has nothing in common with one in a major city.
A suburb relies on nearby cities for it's economic engine. A suburb can stop building and not have to worry about growth, jobs, attracting business.
They don't even have to worry about those in the construction industry as those don't live in the enclave either.
So again I ask
Show me one CITY in which a long term building moratorium has been successful.
From: United States
anthonyc, it is pointless to argue with you, because you seem short on conceptual tools. i have no idea what you mean by "successful moratoria". it is not intended to be quantified. it is a simple idea; to stop construction until the infrastructure catches up with the population. which means, simply, that if you have less hospital beds per capita than the optimal number, you have to take steps to slow population ingress until enough hospitals are built. that means, if you only have enough fire fighting capacity for 10,000 buildings, and you already have 12,000, you stop construction until that area catches up. it is not a matter of success, as you think. it is to create an infrastructure that can bear the population load. i know that is abstruse to you, but to high school graduates it is beyond simple.
Written by: josean, 28 Sep 2009 6:48 AM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
dread,
What can you expect from a guy who supplements his protien intake with roadkill!
From: United States
this is why it should be mandatory for every child to stay in school until at least the tenth grade, Josean.
Written by: anthonyC, 28 Sep 2009 4:38 PM
From: United States
So sad.
The girls throw out left-wing talking points and when they are called out they cannot defend their position.
So what do they do? Why they insult those who dare question their flawed presumptions.
So predictable.
So sad.
So pathetic.
So go back to defending mass murderers, spewing discredited, socialist economics and wearing Che T-shirts.
Let us real men run the world
From: United States
run the world? i had no idea you were Chinese.
Written by: josean, 28 Sep 2009 11:22 PM
From: United States, Dedicating 4 more years to fighting the Dictatorship of the Narco PLD Mafia
"Let us real men run the world"
Like Luis Posada Carriles:
http://afrocubaweb.com/posada.htmLike the Alpha 66 Bay of Pigs surrenders; "In 1976, Miami Police's Lieutenant Thomas Lyons and Detective Raul J. Diaz testified that groups including Alpha 66 had international terrorist ties and had sold $100 "bonds" in Miami to help finance their causes"
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who ever thinks that the inside of a concrete apartment won't burn should look at the video of this hotel that burned...
Its on the frontpage of this site, just press play:
http://sajoma.com/
This will:
1. Improve quality of life in the capital,
2. alleviate traffic congestion,
3. increase property values in the city as existing space will be at prime,
4. as well as spur development in the other sections of the country therefore increasing property values and creating local jobs.
5. and would also disincentives’ people from moving to La Capital as the only hope for upward mobility or survival, as a start to begin eliminating the ever expanding slums.
This would be a win for all if planned, developed, implement correctly, fairly and with TOTAL transparency.
Other than that be prepared to open the faucet in your nice apt. and find excrement coming out of the tap in the very near future!
From: United States
I have stated it before and I will state it again, a 7 to 10 year moratorium on building in La Capita"
Honestly. tell me the truth! Are you a complete idiot or just have a really silly sense of humor.
A 7-10 year building moratorium? Do you have even the slightest clue on what that would do to the economy? Think great depression times 3!
yes, please treat the sewage
Stick to defending the wanted Cuban Gusano terrorist Luis Clemente Faustino Posada Carriles
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Posada_Carriles
since you appear to know nothing about development.
I will ignore the lame attempt at changing the subject.
Lets see how you plan works out.
7-10 no new construction.
Just in the industry alone who many people will that affect? COnstruction workers, Suppliers, architects. engineers, drivers, finance.........it would basically put tens of thousands of people out of work.
Now go and look at other business. Companies would be able to expand. No more office space. No more retail space.
What about the people? Get married, have some kids.......can't find a new place.
Even an idiot could see that a building moratorium is economic suicide. GROW OR DIE.
Firmly planted his foot in his mouth now resorting to infantile, insults to deflect logic.
Poor baby.
Run along now.....your mommy is calling.
Gusanito NASCAR fan i.e. anthonyC
I do not know if the sewerage lines and plants can cope with the increased growth in the growing areas between Kennedy and el Malecon but I know that I would not like to live there.
It seems as if many building standards around the world only become stronger after a tragedy but i hope it does not need a major tragedy here before proper licences for builders are introduced , before fire standards are introduced , before concrete pours are supervised by authorities and cores provided , before electrical installations are approved and before proper water supplies are provided
In some ways it reminds me of Thailand and especially Bangkok where a low rise city with a low income population changed into a high rise city with rising incomes fairly rapidly and during this change there were many shortcuts in construction standards and there have now been many tragedies ..
Urban planning is so important for enjoyable and safe living and I have a feeling that SD is growing quicker than the planners have planned for.
Being an economist I am sure you understand the concept of reaching “the point of diminishing returns.” Well a variation of that concept is what is happening in Santo Calcutta.
A planned moratorium is the possibly the only way-out of this nightmare.
But nothing can compare to the way Bangkok has reduced much of it´s transport problems with the construction of their sky train ..much cheaper than the underground that they also have now ..The cost of a day ticket is about 110 bhat which is about $3. Also the skytrain in Kuala Lumpur has been a great success
I would prefer us to look at these Asian countries that have emerged over the past decade from third world status to good economies than looking at the European countries for inspiration
If you want to feel good about your self get a porn DVD and some baby oil.
A building moratorium is economic suicide.
Permitting developments in downtown Kirkland will be blocked by a proposed moratorium, to be considered by City Council on Sept. 16.
Katherine Ganter/ Reporter Newspapers
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The Kirkland City Council recently voted to approve To
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None at this time.
Kirkland City Council considering downtown building moratorium
Permitting developments in downtown Kirkland will be blocked by a proposed moratorium, to be considered by City Council on Sept. 16.
Katherine Ganter/ Reporter Newspapers
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Kirkland Reporter
Kirkland Council approves delay of downtown development
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The Kirkland City Council recently voted to approve To
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None at this time.
Kirkland City Council considering downtown building moratorium
He, ASS-umes that the moratorium is all that I am proposing. It appears that he has spent all his live listening to Mas Canosa and Rush Dumba and has not learned or developed the skills to think on his own.
A moratorium has to be planned and coordinated with island wide development program as to not dislocate people from employment or investment opportunities. In Puerto Rico almost from the beginning of "Operation Bootstrap" economic incentives were given to American companies in the area of tax incentives and abatements to locate in the Island. If the company wanted larger incentives or tax abatements for 10, 20, 25 etcetera, they need to establish themselves in the more economically deprived areas. That is one of the reasons when you go to PR you see a more equal development throughout the Island as opposed to most other Latin American nations were everything is concentrated on capital-metropolis.
continued:
When the automobile came into being many ac of that era also said what would be come of the those that work in the horse and buggy industry, well the went to work in the car industry. Lucky ac was not around in that era because in addition to overcrowding in Santo Calcutta, we would be knee deep in horse manure.
I thought that any rational person would have interpreted from my initial posting that a moratorium would require a master development plan that would encompass the whole country not just the pet projects of the Dominican elites in la capital.
continued:
Your defense of a building moratorium is a town called Kirkland?
Kirkland?
A small suburb of Seattle?
A town(Not a city) made up of aging hippies and limosine liberals?
A town where it's only "industry"(If you can call it that) is a dying art gallery district downtown?
Give me a F*cking Break.
I dare you!
Just try!
See what I mean about not thinking for himself; right out of rightwing radio!
I am sure we can find examples for your majesty, but even if they weren't a single one in the universe that shouldn't stop people from seriously studying its possibility. But like a good little neo-know nothing republican, no ideas and no proposal, as well as say no too everything is your modus operandi.
The United States or anyone one else had never gone to the moon either but that didn't stop them from trying and making it possible.
You see ac when things are not working you try something new and if works its called innovation, if you don’t its called stagnation and if you repeat the same thing over and over expecting a different result its called Insanity or is it Hannity, in any case it’s the same.
But then again you probably don’t believe in evolution and really think the world was made in 7days and Adam and Eve rode dinosaurs.
PS here is your home work assignment:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing
That is precisely the problem Mr. Romana NO administration its al improvisation like the METRO. That why it has become Santo Calcutta!
You guys are so desperate to defend the un-defendable LIE-onel Fernandez and the PLD criminals, that you suspend rational thought (if you ever had it) and reality.
Anyone that can not see that Santo Domingo is unsustainable chaos rapped in unmanageability has to be deaf, dumb and blind.
Give up?
Josie just trys to change the subject and Dready tries to spin ridiculous claims by using psuedo-intellectual, multi-syllabic terms which are incorrect.
Anybody who considers a suburb as a microcosm of a major city is just plain ignorant. A suburb does not rely on business and industry to survive. Those are in other municipalities....hence the term "Suburb"
sub·urb
/'s?b?rb/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [suhb-urb] Show IPA
–noun
1. a district lying immediately outside a city or town, esp. a smaller residential community.
2. the suburbs, the area composed of such districts.
3. an outlying part.
Progress; he is actually using or at least attempting to use a dictionary rather than using rightwing talking points.
'Give up?"
Words for El Excilo Cubano to live by!
Dready?
A building moratorium in a suburban enclave has nothing in common with one in a major city.
A suburb relies on nearby cities for it's economic engine. A suburb can stop building and not have to worry about growth, jobs, attracting business.
They don't even have to worry about those in the construction industry as those don't live in the enclave either.
So again I ask
Show me one CITY in which a long term building moratorium has been successful.
What can you expect from a guy who supplements his protien intake with roadkill!
The girls throw out left-wing talking points and when they are called out they cannot defend their position.
So what do they do? Why they insult those who dare question their flawed presumptions.
So predictable.
So sad.
So pathetic.
So go back to defending mass murderers, spewing discredited, socialist economics and wearing Che T-shirts.
Let us real men run the world
Like Luis Posada Carriles: http://afrocubaweb.com/posada.htm
Like the Alpha 66 Bay of Pigs surrenders; "In 1976, Miami Police's Lieutenant Thomas Lyons and Detective Raul J. Diaz testified that groups including Alpha 66 had international terrorist ties and had sold $100 "bonds" in Miami to help finance their causes"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_66