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Can Nashville's built environment yield a healthier citizenry?
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 4:25pm

By Christine Kreyling


It is evident in this article that Christine Kreyling is using the same old tired Obamamaniacal socialist cronyism to influence municipal planning. Let’s read her article with the knowledge that she lives in East Nashville and makes her living off of back-to-the-urban marketing.

C. Kreyling intentionally misread and misinterprets that causes of obesity all for the sake of greed.

People know that it is the failed social movements of the 60’s and the failed Obama administration that makes people fat. Socialism makes people dependent on the people who greedily exploit the dire economic conditions they created. Selfish self-expression breeds criminality and homelessness.

C. Kreyling thinks she is “fringe-y” and the planning pros had to play catch up. The truth is that taking over the real-estate market is no more avant grade than Obama taking over the healthcare industry. It is exactly the same.

The “issue” or “crisis” or “injustice” is not the point. The point is monetary control and profit based in greed. C. Kreyling is just using municipal planning as her method to achieve that control and profit.

C. Kreyling quotes new-urban special-interest publications for the willing idiots. It is the same cocktail party banter designed to trigger bobble-head agreement amongst all the like-minded government workers and Nashville Civic Design Center members. However, don’t doubt that her “corrective steps” will happen. They will affect you and your property values if you live in the suburbs. Her community activism is affecting many people outside of the UZO right now and they don’t know it.

Would you like to live in a nice house on a cul-de-sac? You can’t. The Metro Planning Department said that if they allow cul-de-sacs the lack of connectivity will cause your kids to shoot-up their high schools.

C. Kreyling is proud that the money she is using to correct us comes from Obama stimulus money. Only a greedy person would steal from my grandchildren to profit from a real-estate market influence scheme.

Gary Gatson and Patricia Conway of the NCDC and C. Kreyling are going to go into their patcholi filled back room and decide to charge suburban Nashvilleans to increase the real-estate values of downtown and east Nashville. That sounds really fair and transparent.

Their action and results are indisputable not because they are required or true but because you are not allowed to dispute their actions or results. The NCDC center is a publicly-funded private club. You cannot attend meetings unless you are a member or you pay a meeting fee. Meetings are all held downtown.

Any FBI report will show that living downtown is dangerous and dirty. All of the maladies C. Kreyling sites also exist in urban areas. Add robbery, burglary, assault, sexual assault, alcoholism, drug abuse and homelessness to the diseases she lists. Now ask yourself, “How kind of person is so greedy that they want people to live in destitution just to make a profit on a real-estate market influence scheme?”

When C. Kreyling and the urban planners see fat out their windows they see money filling their wallets. Their wallet obesity has outpaced the weight gain of Nashville citizens. You can’t say no to this community activism. C. Kreyling will not allow you to act individually. You are costing her money if you are not under her control.

Metro Health Department director Bill Paul doesn’t believe individuals will ever “…get involved in exercise that requires setting aside special time, changing clothes and going to a special place,…”. I guess he is against having lockers, showers and changing rooms for those few people who ride their bikes to work.

I live in the suburbs and I’m about the same age as Mayor Dean Metro Planning Director Bernhardt. I would be happy to compare our BMI’s. I think I would win.

B. Paul thinks kids should walk or ride their bikes to school, to the store and to the bus. Do his kids do that? Do Mayor Dean’s kids do that? I doubt it. Would you be more concerned about your kids being choked by the exhaust of a minivan or choked by a criminal and thrown in a minivan while walking to school?

Ever since WWII we have had the resources and freedom to escape the dirty, dangerous cities. In fact, since the dawn of civilization every citizen has fled the dirty, dangerous cities when their means allowed them to get out. C. Kreyling wants to further exploit the financial ruin of the middle-class to force the population under her control and increase her profit. Isn’t that the living definition of greed?

The rest of this article is the standard obscuration that only fools the willing and ignorant. The important part is at the end. NCDC executive director Julia Landstreet says (as she cashes her $7.5 million stimulus check), “What we’re looking for isn’t more spending,”.

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From Transit Now Nashville

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Yet another Setback for Transit in Tennessee

The Tennessee Department of General Services is cutting the employee transit card program effective July 1st. They had decided to cut the program to “save” the state $750,000 but they are not considering the real cost. Now, those State employees will need to drive and park their cars downtown. Surely, the cost of providing parking lots is more than bus passes, not to mention the environmental costs, additional traffic, cost to the individual and, overall, it’s another huge step backwards for Transit in this statePlease add your comments and concerns about the effects of slashing this program.

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My response that was deleted -


How are the state employees going to afford to pay for their commute to work? I guess they will just have to sacrifice. Who is worried about how I am going to pay for their commute to work like I am doing now and have been doing ever since they decided to ride the bus on my dime?

Sacrificing transit? Where? I don’t’ see any private bus, trolley or light rail systems popping up all over the place in response to the great market demand. Where are the people willing to sacrifice their personal freedom to travel and the large amount of money it would take to pay for the infrastructure and maintenance of a private transit system? If the market existed there would be plenty of entrepreneurs to satisfy that market. Thanks goodness we are not attracting the attention of the Obama government. I want to remain free.

Let’s see the proof that 85% of our population lives in urban areas. Nashville loses population to the surround counties every year. Remember, the more you elect liberals the more they tax your money and spent it on things that erode your freedom. The gas tax is the best referendum on voter preferences that exist. Williamson County is creating more new jobs than is Nashville. According to the new urbanist political philosophies everyone should now move to Williamson county to be close to where they work.

Metro Nashville government had the opportunity many years ago to take over the 100 Oaks mall but didn’t because the urbanist thought it would have been too “suburban” (even though 100 Oaks is about the same distance to downtown as is East Nashville). There would have been plenty of free parking and would have opened up some space for the state government downtown.

Yes, the $1,800 a year to park is costing you something. It is costing you the $1,800 a year that your employer doesn’t pay you because he pays your parking. I think you should have to pay income taxes for the “free” parking that your employer pays for you. You pay more for a bus ride and you think that is what everyone should do? You still have a car that requires gas and insurance and a road to drive on AND you pay more AND force me to subsidize your expense AND have less freedom to come and go as you please than I do driving my car.

Are you supposed to convincing anyone to ride the bus? I think your employer should just take away your “free” parking and donate the $1,800 a year to the MTA to compensate for the tax money everyone has to pay to subsidize your transit “choice”.

Why don’t you convince all downtown employers to withdraw the free parking incentives they offer their employees? See how many companies stay in business or stay downtown. No public transportation system is reliable and convenient. That’s why cars were invented and are so popular. Good luck getting that big screen TV home from WalMart on the bus. I would guess that you’ve never had to rely strictly on public transportation. Your assumptions seem rather naïve.

How about charging the state employees the full cost of their transit ride to make up the costs of subsidies? Why do people who choose to work downtown get a cheap ride? Charge them for parking too and maybe there will be more parking garages built. How’s that for free market incentive? You seem to think that people are stupid enough not to realize that liberals invent the global warming as an excuse to exploit a “crisis”.

The jig is up. Liberals have revealed their motives. It isn’t going to work anymore. You are only fooling yourselves now.

From yesterday's Tennessean

The interesting part of this problem is that skateboarders constantly complain that they need a skatepark to make them stop street skating. They think that the government owes them “some place to practice their sport” and use their feeling of entitlement to justify their vandalism of public property (waxing steps, destroying rails, etc.).

When someone else claims their own entitlement (graffiti taggers need a place to practice their art form too, man) the skateboarders whine like Grandma’s at the Kroger’s.

I hope it is a long, cold winter.

Long Range: Skate park too valuable to be taken for granted

Sometime on the evening of Jan. 12, vandals broke into the Franklin Skate Plaza and spray-painted obscenities on its kidney-shaped bowl. The two-year-old facility has been "tagged" three times, including once with lipstick.

Seriously now, enough is enough.

The truth of the matter is that if the skate park ends up being taken away or remade into something else, the only people who can be blamed are the ones who continually feel the need to express their artistic side inside of the bowl.

I totally understand that there are tons of good kids who go to the park and use it as it was intended. It's unfortunate the acts of a few cause consequences that must be dealt with by the masses.

Fortunately for those who use the park there are people like Lisa Clayton, Franklin's parks director, who understand that despite the repeated attacks on the venue, it is still something that is very needed by the city.

Aside from that, at $400,000, this isn't something the city can just demolish and go in a different direction with.

But what does need to happen is for those who use the park to take pride in it. Too often people get too comfortable with things. They feel like they are owed, that things that are privileges are rights when in actuality they aren't.

Sometimes, once something loses its newness one forgets what life was like before that new object was there.

Amnesia by complacency, I like to call it.

For those who don't know, there are public ordinances that rule against skateboarding publicly in the city of Franklin. Yet, because there are people who actually care about what's going on with the youth of today, the facility was built.

I covered the skate park's grand opening. What stood out the most that day was the number of adults out enjoying the skate park, too. They spoke about how they longed for a place like this. Apparently they tried for ages to get a similar facility but came away defeated. But on that day, they felt victorious.

Maybe some of those skaters should go back there and retell their stories. Obviously some kids need to hear about what it's like not being fortunate enough to have a place to skate — because at this rate, the next generation may not have the luxury either.

Contact Jonathan Long at 771-5429 or jolong@tennessean.com.

An Open Letter to the Metro Nashville Parks/Trail Watch Organizers

Thank you for taking the time to discuss the Parks Watch/Trail Watch program with me this afternoon. I am very interested in doing what I can to support your program particularly in the development of a Parks Watch program for the Metro Two Rivers Skatepark.

I grew up in Nashville (Overton High School class of 1971). I ride a skateboard at the Metro skatepark four days per week (usually Tuesdays, Thursday evenings and Saturday and Sunday mornings). I established the Brentwood YMCA skatepark as a volunteer in 1998 and developed their program through three expansions.

I have some dealings with the Parks Department Directors and the Parks Board in attempt to establish and promote the skatepark. The outcome of my efforts have not always been amicable and I feel it is important that I inform you of the history of that involvement in order for you to decide how you may best apply my offer of assistance.

My involvement with the skatepark dates back to 2000 when I approached the then Director of the Parks Department, Jim Fyke, with the idea of a Metro skatepark. I worked with the Parks Department until the time when a Skatepark Advisory Committee was appointed to review the design of the skatepark. Despite my initial effort that began the process resulting in the skatepark, I was denied appointment to the committee. Obviously, I was disappointed that I was excluded from the committee but still attended every design session. I also secured volunteer services from a civil engineer that donated professional services during construction.

As construction neared completion I discussed the Parks Department’s Plans for programs (competitions, fundraising events, skating lessons, etc.) with the current Parks Director, Roy Wilson. Mr. Wilson informed me that no event programs were planned for the skatepark.

I resolved to help the skatepark by proposing a “Friends of the Skatepark” program modeled after and following the exact design of the Friends of Warner Parks. I put together the proposal and presented it to the Parks Board. The Board rejected the Friends program and issued a statement accusing me of intending to start a private Police Force. Nowhere in my proposal was there any mention of any program that could be interpreted as a Police Force.

Mr. Wilson also stated that a Friends organization was not “needed” and that the Parks Department was going to conduct programs. The skatepark has been open for three years and no (legal) event has been held, two skate lessons were scheduled in the first several months of the opening (no instructors attended the second lesson) and one competition that was advertised only through selected skate shops and not advertised at the skatepark.

The lawlessness of some of the park users is growing as they have learned over the years that the Parks Department has turned its back on the skatepark. Helmets are never worn a majority of the users, damage to the skating surfaces cause by bikes (protective pegs are required but nobody has ever been ticketed for not having them) continue to increase, illegal events are staged, drugs and alcohol are consumed in the parking lot and fights break out.

Last weekend two Parks Police came to the park and failed to issue any citations to skaters without helmets although they were skating in full view of the Officers.

I cannot say enough in support of the Parks Police despite a spotty record of citing skaters without helmets. I understand the difficulty of their work and don’t fault them as individuals for any lack of enforcement. It is just too much acreage within the system for them to handle and they continually have their budgets under funded as the Parks system grows.

The fighting is becoming worse as the skaters realize that the Parks Department has no control over the park. The fight that occurred last night (actually more of a beating) witnessed and encouraged by the skaters and recorded on video tape by the skaters caused me to finally become fed up and to seek your help.

My experience with the Parks Director, staff and Board leads me to believe that I can not depend on them to take any action. My other involvements with the Metro Government have soured me on all but the most minimal citizen volunteerism. It seems every time I attempt to help and be a responsible citizen I am accused of committing some offense that warrants comment or investigation.

From what I have read in he minutes of the Parks Board meetings the Parks/Trail Watch program is facing some opposition as well.

As I write this I am quickly talking myself out of offering assistance with the Parks Watch Program. I’m sure if you mentioned that I asked to be involved the Parks Director would quickly suggest you reject my offer.

Let’s save us both the trouble and forget about any formal help on my part. I’m sure Mr. Wilson wouldn’t allow it anyway.

I will continue to exercise my rights as a citizen to report violations of the helmet rule, illegal events, maintenance problems, bikes without protective peg covers, drugs and alcohol use and fights at the skatepark. I strongly support your efforts to organize a Skatepark Watch program. If there is anything I can do behind the scenes please feel free to call on me to help.

I would appreciate it if you would not mention my correspondence with you to anyone in the Metro Government. I really don’t feel like having my reputation slandered and my actions question again.

I wish you my best in your efforts to protect the citizens of Nashville.