{"id":34518,"date":"2016-06-29T11:43:15","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T16:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=34518"},"modified":"2016-06-29T11:45:29","modified_gmt":"2016-06-29T16:45:29","slug":"oxford-mississippi-subject-of-downtown-growth-case-study-by-troy-alabama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/oxford-mississippi-subject-of-downtown-growth-case-study-by-troy-alabama\/","title":{"rendered":"Oxford, Mississippi Subject of Downtown Growth Case Study by Troy, Alabama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Troy, Alabama<\/strong> is looking to develop its own town square. Before they dove into the process, several towns that the <strong>Troy Planning Committee<\/strong> felt were good models of what they wanted to achieve. <strong>Oxford, Mississippi<\/strong> was one of the top towns they chose to take a closer look at.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The town is aiming for a growth rate similar to Oxford&#8217;s over the past several \u00a0years. The mayor of Troy spoke with<strong> Mayor Pat<\/strong> personally about the history of Oxford&#8217;s population.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cI spoke to the mayor of Oxford,\u201d Mayor Jason Reeves told citizens at the city\u2019s first downtown planning meeting. \u201cHe said that there was a time when he could have fired a gun straight across the square and not hit anybody.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Oxford has undoubtedly seen large growth in the past ten years, and the city is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/city-of-oxford-plans-for-large-growth\/\">planning<\/a> for even more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">You can read the full article online at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.troymessenger.com\/2016\/06\/25\/case-studies-provide-examples-as-troy-develops-downtown\/\">Troy Messenger<\/a>&#8216;s website.<\/span>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14544 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"The Local Voice Ligature\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troy, Alabama is looking to develop its own town square. Before they dove into the process, several towns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":253,"featured_media":27007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[283,8817,7663,1399,8637,5,4,8818,8819,707,8816,3,753,2410],"class_list":["post-34518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-alabama","tag-case","tag-growth","tag-mayor","tag-mayor-pat","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-popualtion","tag-shoot-a-gun","tag-square","tag-study","tag-the-local-voice","tag-tlv","tag-troy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Oxford1.jpg?fit=600%2C429&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/253"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}