Good morning.
Wednesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 70. Sunrise is 6:44 and sunset is 6:48, for 12 hours, 4 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waxing crescent with 7.1 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
On this day in 1906, Pres. Theodore Roosevelt proclaims Devils Tower in Wyoming as the nation’s first National Monument.
At the September 16 session of the Whitewater Common Council, there was a presentation on economic development in the city. (See Video at 15:13 and accompanying presentation.) In that presentation, Whitewater’s new Economic Development Director told the council members that the municipal administration would bring forward single-family, owner-occupied development proposals this fall.
There are many people in this city, not least this libertarian blogger, who would look forward to hearing about a new, comprehensive proposal.
The development discussion on the 16th was not, and discussions of development these last three years have not been, random non sequiturs. Many years in this city, and many local actions, brought us here. No one invented the need for a development discussion. The topic is not, so to speak, an invasive species placed in Whitewater. That which paved the way for a needed discussion didn’t begin in 2022. It began closer to 2002, truly. (More precisely: after the 2007-2009 recession at the latest.)
When one looks around, one sees (if one sees clearly) a town of fifteen thousand. Many of these residents arrived here in the last decade. Each of these thousands has dozens of encounters, experiences, and interactions each day. They are in motion, dynamically and productively.
This community is not — and should not be — approached as though it were a prehistoric creature in amber.
Press on, and present away.