Annexation 2020

[Coyote]

Omaha would add 8 neighborhoods, 2,100 residents under annexation proposal

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[skinzfan23]

The article states that those neighborhoods are approx 2,100 as of the 2010 census. I would guess that it would include even more people now since that data is 10 years old.

Either way this should push Omaha over 470,000 using the 2018 estimate.

[Coyote]

Omaha City Council approves annexation of eight subdivisions

[Bobcat]

Would love to generate some activism on these annexations that continue to promote sprawl and promulgate the dispersed development of Omaha. These annexations should be rebuffed. A halt would accelerate the developments in neighborhoods, including downtown.

[Garrett]

The annexations are just a reaction to the sprawl, not the cause of it, and help expand the tax base so additional projects can happen all over the city.

[Big E]

Would love to generate some activism on these annexations that continue to promote sprawl and promulgate the dispersed development of Omaha. These annexations should be rebuffed. A halt would accelerate the developments in neighborhoods, including downtown.

Good luck. If there's one thing Omahans love more than their parking lots its the ever increasing distance between them.

[bigredmed1]

Would love to generate some activism on these annexations that continue to promote sprawl and promulgate the dispersed development of Omaha. These annexations should be rebuffed. A halt would accelerate the developments in neighborhoods, including downtown.

So if you do, try to be unique and actually work to fix the problem, not just |expletive| to the guilt junkies about how much guilt they should feel about living in west Omaha.

Specifically:

1. The downtown schools are pretty weak before you get to HS and even then, you have very weak HS and good HS in eastern Omaha. Start building up the public schools by forcing standards, use of time tested education techniques, bonus for production and a salary scale that encourages talent migration into these schools instead of out. Discipline standards that don't leave people afraid for their lives. Education standards that don't result in schools within schools or classes where learning 6th grade math in 10th grade is considered normal.
(In short, make Benson as good as a HS in Millard)

2. Crime control. Sorry, but a choice between living in a part of town where gun fire is frequent and one that is not, is a pretty easy choice (even for the guilt junkies).

3. Gentrification: Its one thing to paint your house and add in a better AC unit, its another to turn a perfectly good residential neighborhood into over priced apartments that crowd out current residents. I would love to see east Benson come back up (I was raised there and am getting more nostalgic as I get older), but not if you are going to squeeze out people for high dollar rentals.

4. Realize that most of the city that we call Omaha was urban sprawl at the time of its creation. Minne Lusa, Benson, Dundee, Underwood, Aksarben and others were "street car towns" that were designed for workers in downtown. What urban planners now call "Old East Millard (Oaks, Signal Hill) was designed for factory workers at the old Western Electric plant. Make the changes you propose organic to current industries and accept the limits of what you can change.

5. Make sure that RELO people get updated on the changes at a granular level so they don't tell some new faculty at UNMC that they should not look east of Millard. This will slow the western push of the city by slowing the number of new residents with families who automatically move to Millard or Elkhorn.