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  Cars are not the answer, and pedestrian malls are not necessarily a failure everywhere. What is Fashion Fair but another version of a pedestrian mall? They actually succeed fabulously wherever they are attached to a destination that draws people.

  Fresno's downtown failed, not because of Fulton Mall, but because of the popularity of shopping malls from Manchester Center on out. The decline of downtown Fresno doomed the Fulton corridor to irrelevance whether or not cars had been in the equation.

  Urban planner Henry Beer lacks vision. What the city needs now is for a developer to see the immense potential of Fulton Mall as the location for a multistory residential/commercial/recreational complex -- with a park on the top -- filling the space between the historic Mattei, Helm, and Bank of Italy Buildings on the southwest side of the corridor between Fresno and Tulare streets. This is a prime spot for a spectacular multi-use megastructure centered on the new high-speed rail station.

• Land for hospital expansion urged in Visalia growth debate

  Land for hospital expansion urged in Visalia growth debate

  New details about land use and building projects in Visalia emerged last week when the City Council met to debate a proposed long-term growth plan good until 2030.

• Tehee: Keeping arts downtown a challenge with Fresno's sprawl

  Tehee: Keeping arts downtown a challenge with Fresno's sprawl

  Sprawl may finally be affecting the performing arts in downtown Fresno.

• Clint Olivier faces Fresno council voting conflicts over wife's Granville job

  Clint Olivier faces Fresno council voting conflicts over wife's Granville job

  Fresno City Council member Clint Oliver may be prohibited from voting on some development projects because his wife is taking a job with a prominent developer.

• Watchdog Report: HUD says Fresno has wasted millions

  Watchdog Report: HUD says Fresno has wasted millions

  A million bucks -- blown on a project that never got off the ground. Nearly $200,000 for another project -- wasted, as well. More than $5 million spent on code enforcement -- no justification for it. These are just a few of the taxpayer-funded disasters made by the city of Fresno's housing division over the past three years, according to a federal investigation.