Thank you, Mr. Buck. Good afternoon, everybody. Growth is here, the issue is how we manage that growth. The kinds of growth we are seeing today often do not achieve their own ends. Yet it enslaves them to long-hours on overburdened transit lines and congested roadways.
Wise development insists that growth be forward looking.
That we expand our paradigm for success in addressing the long-term interests of commerce and communities alike. Long term planning is something that government doesn't do well. It's often reactive, instead of proactive. It does not mean forgoing our profit-based philosophy. There's a lot at stake here and there are a lot of stakeholders - over 12 million stakeholders in Illinois.