http://www.triplepundit.com/2007/06/book-review-cities-in-the-wilderness-by-bruce-babbit/ Business, Better. Since 2005 Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:05:57 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.triplepundit.com/2007/06/book-review-cities-in-the-wilderness-by-bruce-babbit/comment-page-1/#comment-11728 Linda Champagne Tue, 10 Jul 2007 14:13:27 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/wordpress/2007/06/book-review-cities-in-the-wilderness-by-bruce-babbit/#comment-11728 I am currently reading this book to help me with strategies in preventing sprawl in the Town of Niskayuna in Schenectady County. Developers want to destroy 12 acres of beautiful parkland and the 1815-50 mansion that was home to five generations of the Leland and Charles Stanford family (international businessmen and Leland founder of Stanford University.) The shopping mall is to occupy land across from another shopping mall. It would eliminate the remaining historical farmlands that existed here from the 1760s, when John Duncan created his Hermitage homestead five miles from the dorp of Schenectady. This has been a cherished viewscape for two hundred years and over 1,000 people signed petitions to protest the Town allowing the permits to destroy the site. Now the case for an Environmental Impact Statement is being considered by Supreme Court Judge Joseph Sise in Schenectady Supreme Court. But we need to insure the place be preserved with the combined efforts of State and local governments, so Babbitt's book is helpful in giving new spirit to the fight still ahead of us. Anyone who knows powerful Trustees of Stanford University, who could invest in the $3.5 million to buy this and then work with other area and state groups to provide a re-use of this wonderful large brick building and its additions -- for educational, cultural, creative business locations--should contact us, Friends of Stanford Home, at our web site of the same name. We need your ideas and we need some powerful friends to get attention to this all-to-common local problem. But the history is national and significant here. call 518-346-8316. Linda Champagne LMCwrite@nycap.rr.com I am currently reading this book to help me with strategies in preventing sprawl in the Town of Niskayuna in Schenectady County. Developers want to destroy 12 acres of beautiful parkland and the 1815-50 mansion that was home to five generations of the Leland and Charles Stanford family (international businessmen and Leland founder of Stanford University.) The shopping mall is to occupy land across from another shopping mall. It would eliminate the remaining historical farmlands that existed here from the 1760s, when John Duncan created his Hermitage homestead five miles from the dorp of Schenectady. This has been a cherished viewscape for two hundred years and over 1,000 people signed petitions to protest the Town allowing the permits to destroy the site. Now the case for an Environmental Impact Statement is being considered by Supreme Court Judge Joseph Sise in Schenectady Supreme Court. But we need to insure the place be preserved with the combined efforts of State and local governments, so Babbitt’s book is helpful in giving new spirit to the fight still ahead of us.
Anyone who knows powerful Trustees of Stanford University, who could invest in the $3.5 million to buy this and then work with other area and state groups to provide a re-use of this wonderful large brick building and its additions — for educational, cultural, creative business locations–should contact us, Friends of Stanford Home, at our web site of the same name. We need your ideas and we need some powerful friends to get attention to this all-to-common local problem. But the history is national and significant here. call 518-346-8316.
Linda Champagne LMCwrite@nycap.rr.com

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