Pros And Cons Of Starkville Development Partnership

Argument Against the Greater Starkville Development Partnership

There are some major problems with the greater Starkville development partnership as well as some positives. Quite obviously, the partnership has the betterment of Starkville in mind; however, the way they are going about achieving this goal is wrong. The greater Starkville development partnership has ended up costing the city more money, more traffic, and more useless buildings, all in the name of “helping”.

In the twenty years I have personally lived in the Starkville area, I can remember many different times taxes were hiked up. This in my opinion is expected to some degree, especially since we live in the city and we need to pay city taxes. Just in the last six or seven

The greater Starkville development team’s answer to this dilemma was to build a massive median straight through the highway and planting trees in the center of it in order to make the highway look a little nicer. Unfortunately, with the carrying out of this idea, it would mean that there would be even more traffic than before on the road thanks to the lane of road dedicated to the median. The worst part of this plan was that all of the commercial properties located on highway twelve would be forced to pay out of their own pockets to fund the project. This idea, thankfully, was met with enough backlashes from the community that the plan was not passed. It does, however, end up raising the question of whom in the world thought an idea like that would be for the betterment of Starkville and why they got so close to actually passing it in the first place. When they cut off main street, they also created a new roundabout right in front of the building so as to not entirely make the area a dead end, contributing even more traffic to an already thin, two lane road. The problem with creating roundabouts in a small city like Starkville is that nobody knows how to use them correctly. There was already one that created problems off of Blackjack Road, and now there are two, making Starkville officially have more roundabouts than Columbus

Then, the greater Starkville development team had a better idea. They decided that the best place to put a new city hall for the government of Starkville would be right in the middle of main street. The construction of the new city hall has taken three years to complete and is finally erected right where they said it would be. The result of having a massive three story building made of concrete, brick, glass, and steel I-beams is that they have essentially cut off the residential side from the shop side. Since the nineteen twenties people have lived in those houses and had the ability to walk up to the shopping side within around five minutes from their front porch. Now, unfortunately, they are unable to do so as the city hall successfully blocked the road leading up to main street. This would be only a minor dilemma since you can still go around two blocks and get to main street a different way if it were not for the lingering issue of their homes officially devaluing in retail price now that they are not considered part of main street. Why in the world the development team thought to place the new city hall in the center of one of the most congested roads in Starkville instead of the other twenty six square miles the city encompasses is anyone’s guess, but if it truly was for the “development” of Starkville, it has