Why Don't You People Care?
That is the question Christian Grantham posed when he wondered why local liberal bloggers aren't speaking out on an eminent domain case involving Joy Ford.
Well, I did speak out about it, and this is what I said, "the pitfalls of an urban city, at some point, old buildings have to make way for the new...best of luck for Joy in getting as much money as possible for her house."
Enclave picked up on this to say, "Local liberal bloggers seem generally uninterested in development issues."
Don't wish to presume he was talking about me...oh, actually I will. Personally, I talk about "development" issues every once in a blue moon. Such as the hockey stadium, the proposed hotel on Lower Broad, the May Town Center; of course, I don't focus on small projects that effect certain neighborhoods, because I'm not a hyper-local blogger. Development projects that would impact a broad swath of the city sometimes interest me, but for the most part, zoning issues have the excitement factor of the New Kids On The Block reunion tour.
2 comments:
The cost of sticking your head in the sand on all development but "the biggest" is that you will swallow the latest plan to build a satellite city on one of our nation's last urban mega-greenspaces without demanding that any objective impact study be commissioned by the people who are supposed to remain neutral in making a decision: Metro Planning. How can you jettison a go-slow approach in that context? More jobs without a plan for mass transit is one of the more short-sighted stances I've watched you take. Have you even been to Bells Bend to see what would be lost? Or is it "less knowledge is better knowledge" around here on development issues?
You mean, like when I said:
Personally, I like the idea of the proposed May Town Center on the surface, though the devil would be in the details. Would public financing be required? Could they secure businesses in advance? Would traffic be managed properly? I think all of these questions should be answered before a plan like this goes forward.
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