Good morning.
Thursday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 50. Sunrise is 7:18 and sunset is 5:59 for 10 hours 41 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 3.9 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 2001, Apple Computer releases the iPod:
Portable MP3 players had existed since 1997; however, Apple found existing digital music players “big and clunky or small and useless” with user interfaces that were “unbelievably awful”. They also identified weaknesses in existing models’ attempt to negotiate the trade-off between capacity and portability: flash memory-based players held too few songs, while the hard drive based models were too big and heavy. To address these deficits, the company decided to develop its own MP3 player. [Citation omitted.]
On September 16th, the City of Whitewater’s Economic Development Director, Mason Becker, told the Whitewater Common Council that our local government would propose a single-family, owner-occupied housing plan this October. Of that September meeting on development generally, see An Upcoming Presentation on Development.
Whitewater has now had a chance to look at that single-family, owner-occupied plan, first at the Community Development Authority meeting of October 16th and then at the Common Council meeting of October 21st.
As with so many others in our small city, I’ve been awaiting that plan.
It’s a notably strong plan: sound in its direction, perceptive in its grasp of market needs, and thorough in its details.
The plan and its author speak for themselves sensibly and persuasively. I’ll add no remarks of my own today, leaving the presentation for readers’ review. I will note that the Whitewater Common Council voted unanimously to adopt Option A (the full amount of the fund for a Home Renewal Program) of the two options presented in the plan, with further consideration of the age of the housing stock eligible for assistance. (Video at 1:52:21.)
Below are the video remarks from the city’s Economic Development Director and his accompanying presentation —
King Charles prays with Pope Leo in 500-year first: