Local: Campaign for Walkable West Bluff meets tonight

Via C.J.’s site, I discovered the Campaign for a Walkable West Bluff. They will be meeting tonight at  6:30 p.m. in Bradley Hall, Room 142. I don’t think I’ll walk, but I will drive over. Beats going to some lame Peoria City Council meeting.

Basically, what they want to do is actively campaign for the city to actually use the principles of New Urbanism, as opposed to just talk about them, which is all that’s happened so far. I’m tellin’ ya, Peoria is a great place for spending a lot of time and money to develop plans that sit on the shelf while the city rubber stamps whatever the bureaucrats place in front of them.

I’m not nearly as sold on New Urbanism as others, but I’m much more positive than negative. I’m favorable about anything that puts the breaks on the mad rush to expand further to the north and abandon the inner city.