Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space

"A community’s physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic." [Katz, EPA] This blog focuses on place and placemaking and all that makes it work--historic preservation, urban design, transportation, asset-based community development, arts & cultural development, commercial district revitalization, tourism & destination development, and quality of life advocacy--along with doses of civic engagement and good governance watchdogging.

Saturday, May 13, 2006

As Rosanna Rosannadanna said, "It's always something."

Golf cart popping a wheelie Golf cart popping a wheelie photo from Catoosa Choppers.

*Rosanna Rosannadanna was a character on "Saturday Night Live," played by Gilda Radner. Her RR skits always ended with the above exclamation.

Well, the Florida newspaper the Villages Daily Sun, in the article "Sheriff promises crackdown on speeding golf carts, LSVs," communicates to us that problems are relative... While the Columbia_heights email list is abuzz with talk about how robberies have been up three months in a row, the sheriff in Sumter County is planning stakeouts for speeding golf carts. From the article:

While the sheriff said he would certainly try to have more areas staked out to track down speeders, he pointed out that many of the carts are already illegally equipped to go faster than the legal limit.

“A good deal of them can exceed 20 miles per hour,” Farmer said.Farmer said that once a golf cart is found reaching speeds of more than 20 mph on a public roadway, it is no longer considered a golf cart and is subject to the same regulations, and penalties for violating those regulations, as drivers of cars and trucks.

Did you ever see the bad Sylvester Stallone film "Cobra?" I remember his line from the trailer "Crime is the disease, I'm the cure..."

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