INC NEWS - perhaps this issue is a different one...

[TheOcean1 at aol.com]

Hold on a second.
 
Our elected officials shouldn't be lynched quite yet!
 
Melissa and Randy are talking like they've already voted against the  
citizens.
 
Randy said "But the article went on to say that City Council would probably  
approve it..."
That's not exactly accurate, I went down to the recycle bin,  and here's 
exactly what Ray Gronberg wrote, 
 
"...project critics like Leyburn Place resident Ann Goodwin and Omah Street  
resident Laura Suski SUSPECT the council will approve it"
 
Perhaps Laura and Ann are wrong. 
 
I just think we shouldn't grab our pitch forks and be too angry at our City  
Council, based on what these two citizens suspect will happen.
 
Bill Anderson
 
In a message dated 5/19/2008 1:58:54 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
mmr121570 at yahoo.com writes:

Well  said, Randy. Over the years, there have been
numerous such cases down here  in Rural/Suburban South
Durham, where the PC overwhelmingly voted against  and
the governing bodies approved anyway...to the point
that members of  my neighborhood listserv quite
literally couldn't believe the facts that  I
presented....they said, 'what do we have a Planning
commission for, if  we citizens then have to truck up
to City Hall in order to hope to be  heard...and even
then it's just a hope.'

It's often argued that the  gov't can't legally vote
against a development for one reason or  another.
That's when I say, 'change the local ordinances to
reflect real  citizens' concerns.'

Melissa

--- RW Pickle  <randy at 27beverly.com> wrote:

> Reading in todays Herald Sun, I  saw where City
> Council will be voting
> tonight on a new  development in the Hillandale Road
> area. In it, the
> article  stated that the Planning Commission (that's
> the citizen folks  we
> keep talking about in these development equasions in
>  wanting a NA or
> something else to get our voices heard) had  voted
> 10-1 in favor of
> REJECTING the development proposal. But  the article
> went on to say that
> City Council would probably  approve it...
> 
> Well, it seems to me that our elected  officials
> really are the ones who
> are at fault here if they do  not listen to those in
> our community who are
> charged with  dealing with development issues as the
> Planning Commission
> is.  And as it is with every decision made it seems,
> regardless of what  is
> suggested, Council always has the last say and can
> vote it  either way
> regardless of the recommendations of the citizens
>  who work tirelessly to
> make those recommendations. I can't see how  having a
> NA (or what ever they
> would be called) could trump  what ends up being the
> ultimate decision that
> Council, and  Council only, has the power to make. If
> they don't want to
>  listen to the Planning Commission, to whom do you
> think they'll  listen?
> It's not like a 10-1 vote by them was a decision
> that  one could read any
> other way but to reject the plan. It's not like  a
> 6-5 vote where maybe
> some further study would be  necessary.
> 
> It spits in the face of every citizen, when,  after
> spending countless
> hours volunteering our time (this is  the collective
> time spent by all
> citizens that sit on  committees, commissions, and
> authorities in our
> community),  making recommendations to do this or
> that, to have all of that
>  time wasted when decisions are made that contradict
> those  citizens
> efforts. Maybe if we'd all quit doing all of this
>  volunteering for a
> awhile, we could send a message that someone  needs
> to hear us! Otherwise
> it just seems as if we're all  wasting our time on
> deaf ears...
> 
> RWP
> 27  Beverly
> 
> 
> 
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