I wonder if Southern Village would be a part of this if the application is successful? More background here.
So, I checked with the Town of Chapel Hill e-mail address for the project, and had this exchange, resulting in "yes", Southern Village is included.
"Yes, that is correct.
From: Terry MAGUIRE [mailto:tmaguire@newspaper.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 10:38 AM
To: Catherine Lazorko
Subject: RE: Geographical reach
Just so I am clear – the application at this point would include all of Southern Village? Thanks.
From: Catherine Lazorko [mailto:clazorko@townofchapelhill.org]
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 9:58 AM
To: Terry MAGUIRE
Cc: Public Information
Subject: RE: Geographical reach
Ultimately that would be up to Google. We are applying for the area within the boundaries of Chapel Hill and Carrboro."
It might be worth imaging all that we want to be able to do, what we might do, how it would work, etc. either with the Google rollout or with an ehanced view of the goals outlined by the Federal Communications Commission this week. (For whatever it's worth, I am a former attorney/advisor at the FCC.)
Just how would Southern Village make use of more capability than it now has? What are the limitatoin on us doing more now? It seems to me that there is a big gap between what we could do today, and choose not to do, and the dreaming of unlikely futures that accompany campaigns like that fostered by Google.
If "it" already is built here and we have not "come", what makes us think that building something faster would make any difference?
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