Train wreck

4 Comments

1. 

   Jon DeHart

    /  January 31, 2012

   Nancy,
   That is a good question . I hope everyone is looking forward to higher taxes …

2. 

   Mark Marcoplos

    /  January 31, 2012

   Reminds me of the last Town Council campaign when Matt Cz made criticism of a half-built East 54 project a major issue, despite many, many months of public discussion to build just such a project.

3. 

   DOM

    /  January 31, 2012

   My God, is there NO WAY a developer can work with the whims and fancies of local politicians and special interest groups that mask themselves as concerned citizens?

   Mr. Christian spent a million dollars trying to placate a council that seemed encouraging through almost the entire process (I know, I attended every meeting). In the end, the council members speak with so many mixed messages, everything just becomes incomprehensible and meaningless.

   I fear all the hoopla around a 2020 comprehensive plan will just devolve into more of the same: A small minority of screamers screaming loudest that always ends up being the only sound heard by a whimsically inept and narrow-minded town council.

   Let’s face it, neither the local taxpaying public, nor a local developer, stands a chance in this environment.

4. 

   Joe

    /  January 31, 2012

   I don’t understand. The Town keeps talking about wanting to encourage business activity and growing the tax base and not being perceived as “anti-business”, yet they do this kind of stuff?

   Oh, and people who live in the city limits complaining about college students should simply be ignored. I have zero sympathy from people who benefit mightily from the University and all that it entails, yet complain about the students. These are the same people who’d move to the coast and then complain about the ocean being too wet.