In the year 2025: Greenfield, backward to the future!
Well, if it was all that simple a common problem like grass clippings in the road being picked up could be solved by social media.
On one hand, we were smart enough to relocate the county jail so it wouldn’t end up being the tallest building in Greenfield or a new mini-trailer park addition.
Back in the year 2020, the state finally repaved State Street from McKenzie Road to Davis Road. But by 2022, the cheap material and the plethora of utility cuts turned it back into Patches and Bumps Boulevard. Councilman James Whitcomb Riley lll presented a speech bragging about the city’s ongoing program to get people to move to Hancock County. However, in one of their closed-door meetings, they neglected to figure in the costs of more police, firefighters, county and city workers and various needed projects.
It’s called the Law of Diminishing Return. Will Greenfield be a better place to live when the population is 75,000? You can bring all the low-paying third-party factories that are interested with the big million-dollar tax abatements, then watch most of them leave or change ownership so as to qualify for new abatements. The Mt. Comfort area can be the new Cannery Row while the explosion of cheaply made vinyl villages pop up to house the low-tier employees where if the truth be known both a husband and wife would have to work alternating shifts with max overtime to make ends meet.
Same Day Interviews… Apply Today… Start Today… Sign-On Bonus after 90 Days. These are just some of the signs you see now. Folks, we can’t handle what we have now, let alone try to compete with Hendricks, Boone and Hamilton counties. Let them build the mini-metropolis areas, the new schools, the new fire stations, not to mention trying to keep loyal, well-trained police departments. It’s basic math: More people = more crime, more utilities! We will need to double the amount of staff and space for prosecutors and the probation department.
Oh, but we did win the state award for being the largest city with no bypass, and the commuters enjoy looking at the traffic islands with trees and landscaping as they wait their turn along State Road 9 to get to the next stoplight. Think about what you are really leaving behind, Council People. Quality of life doesn’t mean overpopulating or catering to third-party warehouses and factories that need more manpower than is available!
Dennis Dunn
Greenfield
