The Winston-Salem Journal editorializes on the city’s Legacy Plan, saying “too often it has been treated more as a list of fancy suggestions rather than a set of crucial elements to improve our quality of life.”
With that in mind, here’s planning director Paul Norby:
“… [the vision of the plan] is that we create communities that allow people to hopefully live, work and play without having to drive a lot. The other thing is having a healthy balance between economic development and environmental quality. We need both, because if we have a poor environmental quality, that will eventually hurt our economic development. But if we don’t have any economic development, it doesn’t really matter what happens beyond that because we would be a dying community.”
Living, working and playing without having to drive a lot means —you guessed it —– mass transit. And it doesn’t get any fancier —or expensive —– than that.
