Was going to say, damn Nebraska are some depressed mofos

Foxwoods I know for sure was prepping a huge retail as part of their expansion. Dunno what happened with that, might still be caught up in the lack of grow space. They certainly were operating as if they wouldn't be required to go through the lottery.

I know there's a decent sized equity grow facility going in to Norwich, whos chamber of commerce wants to be a weed industrial center.

I like Westerly a lot. You could definitely get by there near to downtown or even on the CT side with just a bike.

From what I understand, fairly late for a first dusting, which is more often expected in late October. Back on schedule now, though

There's a flu going hard up here. Apparently hit Norwich CT real bad this week and the urgent care clinics are filled with no appointments until next day.

Hanks dairy bar in Plainfield is worth a try. It's not quite in & out style, but it's my go to for fast food burgers on this side of the state.

In & out can be done great. If you're ever in Austin, try p Terry's. It's an in & out clone that improved on the original in every way.

I feel like the only reason I have facebook is to read Heather Cox Richardson in the mornings. I spend more time scrolling Reddit these days.

No one's set up the neighborhood for my street in my little town. I miss Nextdoor, it was always good to get out the popcorn

There's good money in losing political races

Pretty light in vtown. Good number of folks in the parking lot after sunset.

Sad that Farouk is looking rough vs Sommers. Was gonna be a hard thing for him to do, she's not disliked, but I thought he was a strong challenger.

One the course of many years, a lot of the city will be redeveloped. You can build it the way it is or the way you want it to be

Was mostly tongue in cheek. Generally, someone will make a good chunk of change here. Other comments are calling out this for being the result of crooked dealing, so it was referring to that

The closer you can bring light commercial to residents, the lower the need for cars and more benefits to residents are nearby. I follow a school of urban development that's closest to the new urbanists who say that the healthiest neighborhood is going to be one that people don't have to get in a car to get necessities. A corner store and a restaurant and a bit of space for some sort of small retail.

Doesn't mean that it can't be developed to be

Good

• Housing supply is good
• Waterfront housing is better than waterfront industrial and contributes to cleaner water overall

Bad

• Not great walkability, mixed use zoning for that inland lot would be a boon for both this development and the existing neighborhood.
• No transit, that industrial track is a wild one
• Capitalism!

Best regional location to go rock-hounding would be in the Herkimer area. It's a bit of a haul, though. I've heard there are a few good hunt locations just to the east side of the CT river.

OP states that workers deserve to know how much businesses make. Yes, they want more money, but they are not asking for mandatory profit share as most here suggest.

I think people are reacting to a misunderstanding of your post title. "share income with their employees" can easily be interpreted as you wanting all businesses to be required to implement some form of profit sharing.

What you really want, and I agree that this could be of benefit, is a sunshine law for private businesses that requires they publish their cashflow year-over-year. I don't think that's that controversial of a proposal, and allows employees to negotiate from a position of strength.

It would require more paperwork on the part of businesses, which could be especially onerous to small businesses (say, under 5-10 employees) or even, if it's not carefully worded, to sole proprietorships who would have to effectively publish quarterly reports. But that can be worked around and what is required to be reported and published can be adjusted on a sliding scale of gross income/employee count.

I'd say work on how you're presenting this and then get in touch with your local legislator and you might be able to get something done. Or not. Politics is a grind.

Yup. New car here. People flash me all the time and I flash them back to let them know it could be a whole lot worse

I like mystic, but I can't imagine what it would be to live there.

Groton is fine. It's not nice, per se, but it's livable. Bit crusty. New London is also a bit crusty, but also has some really cute neighborhoods.

Given the choice, I'd probably look at westerly/pawcatuck. Fewer tourists, still as very cute town.

Look, if you're willing to slum it up a bit, I think Norwich is worth a look. Places should be cheap, it's easy access to the coast and the forest and even Hartford is only 30 minutes away. Norwich seems to be coming out of its slump a bit, and so it's a good time to try it out.

I'm more in line with the new urbanists here: I'd like to see increased housing stock in general instead of focusing on enforcing the NIMBY's to deal with affordable housing, which is a loaded term these days. I mean, I want the NIMBY's to be in pain, but by requiring them to accept the construction of town-appropriate housing stock.

Rich town? Luxury Condo's/Townhomes/Duplexes, split lots, ADU's, Luxury Apartments within small MUDs.

Urban? MUD's as far as the eye can see, getting taller and more dense as you get closer to public transit.

Working-class Burbs? Smaller lots, Townhomes, Duplexes, ADU's, and moderately sized MUDs with a focus on building walkable neighborhoods suitable for regional transit.

Rural? ADU's, smaller lot sizes, support for transforming town centers into walkable areas potentially suitable for spoke transit.

How you do it? This is the hard part. This is my idea, but I can't point to anything guaranteeing it would work:

• In a state this small, you can codify zoning at the state level. Lot size, min house size, ADU allowances, commercial/industrial usage, home business usage. Put those together in a package of different zones. You would have a lot of these in various combinations. Ex:
  • h2 - min lot size 2 acres, min house size 2000 sq ft, 1 primary residence allowed, 1 ADU allowed per 1 acres
  • h4 - min lot size 1 acres, min house size 1600 sq ft, 2 primary residence allowed - or - 2 ADU allowed
  • c1 - min lot size 1 acre, residential & commercial use allowed *insert limits on commercial space*
• Towns & cities get to carve out neighborhood tracts as a higher-level abstraction
• Towns & cities develop their own progression ladders (h1 -> h2 -> c1 -> c3 -> ...)
• Towns & cities apply progression ladder to neighborhood tract
• Neighborhood tract automatically advances to the next stage on the progression ladder when the current tract is filled with 50% of the properties fitting the current level.
• Towns & cities are still allowed to create neighborhood overlay districts when they wish to promote some dramatically different form of development, as well as historic district overlays when they wish to maintain areas.
• Towns & cities are not blocked from adopting "look & feel" amendments, but appeals process should be codified

Benefits:

• The zoning laws are cohesive across the state, improving predictability and enforcement
• Towns & Cities still control how their neighborhoods are developed. Tracts can be as large or small as they feel. Adding more lots to a tract protects it from advancing quickly along the ladder, but also opens more lots to be developed in a more dense fashion.
• NIMBY's still have some measure of power, building long progression ladders before any density is truly added, allowing tracts to be declared historic and protected from additional development
• YIMBY's & new urbanists get to design the transit centric developments of their dreams.
• Towns can develop naturally as population patterns demand more housing, creating new or larger walkable town centers
• Tracts, over time, will be a dynamic mix of 3 different density patterns: leftovers from the earliest, majority from the previous, new developments from the next level of density.
• Discourages huge, suburban housing developments as the next tier is likely to be a modest increase in density rather than a bunch of small lots.

Downsides:

• Getting it through the NIMBY's in the first place will be hard because by its very nature it's encouraging a change in current density
• Doesn't explicitly force transit-centric development, this would need to be intentional
• Doesn't explicitly force affordable housing construction, which wouldn't make the progressive camp happy

Population will increase and someone's going to have to build a new HS. And your increased taxes have now improved your school system, improving services offered by your town. If you look at it that way, it's an upgrade and well worth the price.

But your town could probably also have anticipated the growth and started investing in a larger school or new HS much earlier. Growing up, my town readjusted our HS split before I made it to high school. They launched the new HS by having an all-district 9th grade campus for a few years that funneled into the main campus. As the district population grew, they realigned and made the 9th grade campus a full 4 year HS. This would have been forward thinking and would have had much less an impact than saying, "well, shit, I guess we need a new school now"

Ugh. That happened to my friend who opened one in Amherst mass that did great for a year before the pandemic hurt her business and a greedy landlord finished it off.

Albany.. NY? Pretty cool

Austin had 3 places in a 10 minute radius, one store with a lot of tables, one bar, and one combination bar and store

Love this idea.

It's unfortunate that the Providence area doesn't have a board game cafe, a place that serves food, drinks, and sells games. I know there's one store in Pawtucket, but that's about it.

I had some friends move out to Berkeley and found their way into a board gaming group. A brewery hosted it on Tuesdays: they were happy to be taken over by the nerds on a night they would otherwise not see many folks. Maybe that's something to explore moving forward?