Originally Posted by brooke

I'd be interested to see what other items we've not supported on this forum. First, people on this forum are hardly a unified front. Second, we've had enough growth in the neighborhood so we don't have to accept anything that comes our way.... Now, there's SO much interest in Fishtown that we can be selective about what we want.

Originally Posted by brooke

There's a lot of things to consider when talking about growth--whether something will be an improvement or not for the community. There are not just implications of if something "sounds cool" or not but draws on local resources, blocking of views, traffic patterns, parking, if something will be sustainable so that we aren't looking at vacant structures 10 years from now when business ideas fail (for instance, KFC in less than 5 years IMO).