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Article: EDITORIAL: Considering Canal Side: Public discussion in review process can calm the waters in harbor dispute.(Editorial)
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- The Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)
- Article date:
- May 19, 2007
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May 19--Here's the biggest false choice being offered in a heated harbor redevelopment debate that's rife with misinformation: Buffalo has to choose between a historic park and a retail development. It doesn't. The harbor can have strong elements of both -- and getting the balance right is the chore faced by this community, the officials it has elected and the agency and commission members hired or appointed by those elected representatives to get the job done.
And balance there must be. For this rebuilding city, it is vital that the new waterfront not only honor the past, but work for the future. It can.
The mechanism for striking a balance is the ...