The Buffalo News carried a story today about vacant school buildings posing problems for the communities in which they're located. "It’s not like having a vacant house on the street. You’ve got a large building, and if that goes vacant, sooner or later the windows are going to get broken or it’s going to have to be boarded up," said Thomas J. Adamczak, Cheektowaga’s supervisor of building inspectors. "It’s just going to speed up deterioration in neighborhoods."It begs another question relating to the closings of Rochester-area schools -- what are the plans for the facilities? Could it be that the Diocesan task force didn't take this into account in its decision, giving it another reason to prevent disclosure of its report to Bishop Matthew Clark?
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So, learning from Buffalo's experience, low income housing is the best use for these buildings. That would help the city neighborhoods avoid blight, but the parishioners in the suburbs will wish they'd been more supportive of the schools!
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