September 19, 2007

The mighty 7th: Tom Buckel


1) Choose the issue you find most important, crime, education or jobs. State what your priorities are in that area.

These issues are inter-related.

The main goal for our region must be to foster innovation and adaptation in all infrastructures and in all institutions- public and private.

I propose that the County create a Department of Science and Technology, and appoint a nationally recognized scientist to lead its efforts to identify sectors of our economy that have strong growth potential in high wage jobs.

I want the County to spearhead a public-private venture capital partnership, with at least $125 million in capital, to fund emerging technological businesses which do not meet the narrower lending criteria of banks and traditional venture capitalists.

I advocate regional planning and funding of secondary education, and hope over time to extend the infrastructure of Onondaga County College to all schools in our region.

I support County crime fighting ordinances: seize property involved in drug buys and prostitution solicitation; use eminent domain to seize and either rehabilitate or demolish abandoned structures; employ modern technology to quickly spot new crime patterns and target and respond to gun shots fired; put any substandard house or building run by an absentee landlord into receivership; and sensible zoning of zone adult entertainment facilities away from local businesses, neighborhoods and churches.


2) What will you do to get young people to come to Syracuse and stay there?

Onondaga County is a much better place than the image would suggest. It has powerful colleges and universities. Remarkable intellectual and technology resources. Strong arts. Dynamic recreation. Loyalty. Extraordinary architecture. Abundant natural resources.

Despite these attributes, the magnitude of the population loss among the young is unprecedented in our history. The time for “business as usual” has passed.

I believe in aspiration goals: increasing city population to 200,000 people, county population to 600,000 people, by 2025.

Every public and private sector action that we take must do what is necessary to provide the capital and support for creative people with ideas.

This begins with modernizing county and local government and then tackling, on the local level, the intractable problems of taxes, public sector employment growth, energy and Medicaid which hamper our prosperity.

I intend to lead efforts to reinvent our outdated, overly expensive county and local governments and to promote growth inward again. Specifically, I support the following actions:

• Merge Syracuse City and Onondaga County into one government.

• Encourage mergers among towns, villages.

      • Centralize key local government functions (e.g. economic development, land use planning, transportation, creation of regional wireless and broadband internet access).


3) The county seems to have had a city government will take care of the city kind of attitude, but if we are to lure young folk and businesses to come to CNY, I think they'll think of it as coming to Syracuse. In my opinion, if we are to really boost CNY, we have to have the county work with the city, because as Syracuse goes, so too does Onondaga County. What do you think of this? What will you do (or have you done for incumbents) to change this attitude.

I see in Syracuse the microcosm of the unfinished, evolving American dream.

For our County to be great again, we all must see each other as brothers and sisters. This means supporting the City.

There are natural constraints on continuing sprawls away from our city. Prime agricultural land shouldn’t be covered with cement. Extended commute times have a negative impact on children and families.

Reversing this run to the suburbs requires better schools, safer streets, a new village-like ambience, and new thinking from Central New Yorkers about where and how they should live.

New urban development does many good things- it’s good for the environment, good for the vitality of the region and it protects agricultural land. By putting people in face-to-face contact with each other in city neighborhoods, you create the basis for real democracy which is conversation and interconnectedness among people: hopefully planting the seeds for further growth.

We have the strength and character to affect all those aspects of life in our county and city that are within our grasp. Given the riches of our community, there should be no excuses, and under new leadership which I intend to offer, there will be no excuses.

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I agree that Syracuse needs to be rebuilding the city center in greater effort. Where I disagree is... stopping suburban development will end up helping the city. Suburban growth around Syracuse happens for a reason. The reasons vary, but most have to do with better schools, lower crime, bigger house, newer house, bigger yard.

Sprawl didn't cause the City of Syracuse to lose population. So what did?

1. Crime
2. Decay
3. Homes packed too close together
4. Lack of parking
5. Bad schools
6. Rentals
7. dropping home values caused by the 1-6 problems above

So you might be thinking. What caused the problems listed 1-7 above?

1. bad local economy caused crime, decay, dropping home values
2. the desire for something better caused the need for larger lot sizes, more elbow room
3. the new invention called cars caused the need for more parking spots
4. the bad local economy mixed with drugs which created ghettos was the cause of bad schools

Sprawl didn't cause crime, decay, dropping home values, desire for larger lot sizes, more elbow room, lack of parking space, bad local economy and bad schools. Rather sprawl was the ANSWER to those problems.

Rather than blaming sprawl for the problems of cities like Syracuse, we should be seeking out real answers to the real problems.

OK, we stopped sprawl in the Syracuse area. What is next?

1. Fast rising home values in the most desirable suburban neighborhoods
2. Instead of people moving from the city to the suburbs, those same people will move out of the region or the state in search of sprawl some where else
3. Without the option to build your dream home, thousands of suburbanites move away from the region so they can build their dream home in a region that allows sprawl
4. Some neighborhoods in the city of Syracuse will see a new influx of people, but only the neighborhoods that are already healthy. People would rather move out of the region than to move into a ghetto or a run-down area where you are at a higher risk of crime

Therefore, what problems will stopping sprawl fix?

1. Crime? No because this problem is caused by drugs, gangs, and a bad economy etc.
2. Decay? Only in the neighborhoods that are already in good condition will decay lessen. But, a better way to get rid of Decay is to create a strong, fast growing local economy where outside investors fix up property because of the influx of new people in the region.
3. houses that are too close together? No, the lack of new land to build on (or sprawl)will actually cause this problem to get worse as more homes need to be build closer together.
4. lack of parking? No, but some people will seek other forms of transportation. But, as most know, only the minority will get rid of their cars. Most will seek bigger drive ways, or garages. If they have to move out of the region to get it, they will.
5. Bad schools? No, students and teachers will not be better just because there are a few more people moving into the good neighborhoods.
6. dropping home values? Yes, stopping sprawl will increase the assessment price on your home.

Therefore, stopping sprawl will solve one problem- dropping home values? That means the same number of people seeking a limited number of homes = higher home prices

But is that really what people want? Rising home prices? Many homeowners are up in arms today because home assessments are increasing a little. Imagine how high home prices will get if there is no new land to build new homes on. Rather than a problem solved, it really becomes a problem caused by stopping sprawl.

Rising home prices isn't the only problem caused by stopping sprawl.

1. As people leave the region in search of building their dream home, in search of lower home prices, and in search of places with more elbow room- companies in the region say to themselves, why should we be in a city where many quality people are leaving in search of things found in almost any other city in the country? The companies then follow the people out of the region because they realize that the most qualified employees will desire a dream home, a large lot size, and lower home prices.

2. As companies leave, there are even less jobs in the area then before. Therefore, crime increases, decay increases, bad schools get worse and home prices drop.

3. As the tax base in the region erodes, taxes increase.

Stopping Sprawl does not solve any problems that make people leave the region but only causes more problems.

Hope this helps you understand my view on sprawl.

Other than the sprawl issue...good blog! Keep it up. Thanks

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