Practically Speaking

I seriously think that if the people whose homes are condemned and the neighborhood at large can get something going, a lawsuit could be filed showing that eminent domain here is clearly lacking in merit.  This is NOT the ideal location for a fire station, in fact, the ideal location is where it is NOW.  Even the city's waste of dollars on studies showed that station #3 was perfect right where it was and should stay.

I see it like this.  The city has already mandated some grossly overly huge widening of Calhoun Road between Bluemound and Greenfield, and cannot even wait for it to happen later rather than sooner, although this stretch of Calhoun should NOT be turned into some sort of gross highway due to the nature of what is currently there.  

Moving the fire station completes the issues of mandating widening Calhoun, and then, the VK project at Ruby Farms gets more merit, and next you know it, we have interstate off and on ramps going in as well.  Then Swanson School will be deemed to be at too dangerous a location, and that will be sold off and exchanged for some horrible alternate site as well.  

I foresee Speaker's ideal for southern Brookfield as being some maze of town complexes fed by overpriced condos and lots of rental towers.  Hey, I have nothing against condos or rentals, but, at the same time, isn't the market a bit saturated already with the already approved projects that Speaker and his lackeys seem to see everywhere but where it is on their own home turf? (The NIMBY syndrome.) I can remember all too well the nightmare that Brown Deer faced back in the seventies and eighties when it ran amok with development, and guess who WANTS to move to Brown Deer?  No one.  It is an urban wasteland up there.

As far as the plan for 2020, Brookfield is NOT going to have a residential population of 75,000 to 80,000.  Where do they come up with these numbers?  I suppose they have the numbers and then seek solutions on how to achieve  reaching this?

One of these days, Brookfield will unite to fight the cancer that is spreading through it.  Each neighborhood has an issue like Capitol Heights, Village of Brookfield with its garish lights and elevations, sidewalks where residents don't want them, roundabouts, wider roads, relocated fire stations and on and on.  If only we could think of each issue as if it was in our own neighborhood, maybe we would ALL call our aldermen and tell them how to vote. After all, we're all paying for this waste. It is really pathetic when citizens speak up and call city hall and are continually ignored.