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Show Give up 'wild' idea of destroying Main Street Dear Editor: The article by Cherie Huber (Oct. 11, 1989) on her stroll down Bountiful Boun-tiful Main Street with Gary Peterson Peter-son was a delight! It's the most positive and refreshing thing that has been said about the downtown area that I have heard in years. Mr. Peterson's remark that the "City planners should look at what is not so costly and what is reversible. People change and tastes change, but once an old building is torn down, it's gone forever" is exactly the way I feel about "our town." People travel to New England and are charmed by the small towns and villages because of their old style buildings. Others spend lots of money to go to Europe to "oh" and "ah" over the antiquity of their villages and old cities. Maybe what we have isn't hundreds of years old to give it that charm, but let's give it time. Again as Mr. Peterson commented, com-mented, "The past is so popular now, yet no one plays off die rich 1930s and 1940s theme on Main Street." The RDA group and City Council Coun-cil would do well to read the article, if they haven't, and reconsider their desire to tear down and build some box of a building. Why not use all this "free" money from the government (really us taxpayers) and make these buildings safe. There would probably be enough left over to build a badly needed child care center where low income parents could leave their children in safe keeping. It looks as though the RDA could look at Five Points and see what a struggle it has had and is still having keeping the small shops there. Why not give up their "wild" idea about destroying Main Street. Just think, all that money might even be returned to the U.S. Treasury and apply it on the deficit. Again, I applaud Mr. Peterson for his sensible and nostalgic walk down Bountiful Main Street Sincerely, Sarah M. Bishop Bountiful |