Franklin Circus Blog Reader's Comments Apply to Nolensville in Everyway!

This was a comment left on this blog. It is so well written
that it deserves its own post:"Call me crazy, but I don't
see how doubling the size of Franklin (Nolensville) will
add to my quality of life, given the roads, water and other
infrastructure, so I am not for more development.I am
for preservation, as long as the preservation project has
some sort of plan, we can afford it, and the thing to be
preserved is more or less real.The "preservation" as
currently practiced is not planned, is fiscally irresponsible,
and may preserve places where nothing really happened.
Was the horse farm ever on any plan or did it spring from
Miller's head de novo? Why did we buy that particular
piece of land (letting the owners stay and raise their
horses) and sell, through FSSD, a nearly identical piece of
land across the street for development? Who benefitted
from those deals?Why did we buy the CCOF where a battle
may or may not have taken place and let the Target comp-
lex be built when we can prove a battle was fought there.
For the record, there were so many civil war buffs scann-
ing the Target site with metal detectors during excavation
they had to hire guards. We know something happened
there.

I'm for public transportation at taxpayer expense for
those who need it (sick, poor), but everyone who is not
visually impaired knows the Trolleys are always empty,
yet they still ply the streets, belching their diesel exhaust.
We know we have trolleys and not vans because some-
body at the HF saw the trolleys in Pigeon Forge and
thought they'd be cute in Franklin for Christmas.

So the trolleys were never a planned urban transport
system; they mostly serve the HF at its many functions.
Anon 7:58: You are right: I don't want 25,000 more
people sharing my limited roads and water. I think using
tax money to enrich the friends of politicians is wrong.I
think having a government largely run by development
interests and real estate people is a bad idea. (Dugger &
friends).

I think spending millions on questionable "parks" is
poor public policy. I think the trolleys are a waste
because they are EMPTY and were not designed for
and do not serve the people they are supposed to help."

Nolensville need not look any further down the road
than Franklin to see what is happening to our town.
Send in you comments.