Comments on: Town Council Retreat an Excercise in Futility for Townspeople? http://www.wickenburg-az.com/2007/03/council-retreat-letter/ Your independent source of information about Wickenburg, AZ. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:15:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Arizonabound http://www.wickenburg-az.com/2007/03/council-retreat-letter/#comment-382 Arizonabound Fri, 23 Mar 2007 00:42:22 +0000 http://www.wickenburg-az.com/?p=596#comment-382 Well, I am not a PhD, but have witnessed "growth for the good of the community" first hand. I have seen shopping malls and big-box stores ruin the landscape and decimate local businesses. I have seen the influx of "a different element" that such so called progress brings. I have seen a way of life vanish before my eyes, yet the politicos think they're doing a bang up job of it. If you want to see the results of higher density development, and shopping centers as far as the eye can see, coupled with crippling traffic, increased crime and taxes over $11K per year just take a trip to NJ. See how "good growth" gets a state $33 BILLION in debt. See how people who work for a living are running out of the state like their hair is on fire. If that is what you seek then, by all means, don't do that to Wickenburg, just move east. I've got a fabulous all brick rancher for sale... By the way, did I actually read that one of the town visionaries is hoping for a mall near town?????????? How sad! Well, I am not a PhD, but have witnessed “growth for the good of the community” first hand. I have seen shopping malls and big-box stores ruin the landscape and decimate local businesses. I have seen the influx of “a different element” that such so called progress brings. I have seen a way of life vanish before my eyes, yet the politicos think they’re doing a bang up job of it. If you want to see the results of higher density development, and shopping centers as far as the eye can see, coupled with crippling traffic, increased crime and taxes over $11K per year just take a trip to NJ. See how “good growth” gets a state $33 BILLION in debt. See how people who work for a living are running out of the state like their hair is on fire. If that is what you seek then, by all means, don’t do that to Wickenburg, just move east. I’ve got a fabulous all brick rancher for sale…

By the way, did I actually read that one of the town visionaries is hoping for a mall near town?????????? How sad!

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