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The downtown unmade? The urban-renewal test

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AUDIT ROW #271 · RENEWAL SCHEMES, CLEARED HOLES, AND THE MALL-ON-PAPER, TESTED

No urban-renewal scheme, no cleared-and-waiting hole, and no mall-on-paper for downtown Walkerton stands in the records reached from this seat. The checklist's first mall question assumes a city big enough to have been offered the mall bargain; this town's downtown record is one of individual buildings rising, burning, and changing hands, not of an authority clearing blocks. The test is printed at the strength reached — town minutes and the Tribune's archive are the item's named settler for the formal record — and its result matters beyond this section: it is the same test the Black-history leg's displacement row turns on, and a town with no renewal scheme has a displacement count of zero as a finding, not as a guess. That consequence is carried in the black-history addendum; here the planning fact itself is printed: no scheme was adopted, drawn, or voted for this ground in the record reached.

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Source: The downtown unmade? The urban-renewal test, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/walkerton/malls/downtown-unmade-the-urban-renewal-test/