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Chapel Hill politics, Chicago style
by Nancy Oates on June 2, 2014
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Posted by Nancy Oates on June 2, 2014
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DOM
/ June 2, 2014Yikes! The shark jumped over the moon!
many
/ June 2, 2014DOM. Don’t ever change.
bonnie hauser
/ June 2, 2014Nancy – lets not forget that Chicago occasionally uses political power for the social good. My favorite was when Richard Daily Jr bulldozed Meigs Field in in the middle of the night in order to build a lakefront park. The private pilots were unhappy – but the citizens were thrilled.
James Barrett
/ June 2, 2014They demolished Meigs Field??? But that was the default starting point for Flight Simulator all during my mis-spent youth….
Julie McClintock
/ June 14, 2014Great story Nancy. It really is a mystery why more Council members did not adopt the incentives devised in the citizen recommendations to gain affordable housing in the EF Form Based Code. Throughout the EF public hearings Sally Greene insisted several times that incentives did not work. Yet on the final vote she proposed withdrawing the few properties on the southside of Elliott to make use of just that sort of incentive – low heights and then higher ones if affordable housing is employed. It would have been so simple to propose this plan for all the properties. Then we could have had many more affordable housing units in addition to those planned in the new budget!
DOM
/ June 16, 2014Let’s just keep beating this dead horse till the cows come home.
DOM
/ June 16, 2014…and pigs fly.
Don Evans
/ June 16, 2014Yo DOM!
We’ve only been complaining about feckless, corrupt and myopic politicians so far. Wait’ll we start in on the developers of that ilk. Know any pigs among that bunch?
DOM
/ June 26, 2014Don Evans –
Just because you don’t agree with the stance of some of our local politicians’ opinions doesn’t mean they are necessarily “feckless, corrupt and myopic.”
Here’s what Ellie Kinnaird has to say about developers in CH – and those who contest new development in our community:
http://chapelboro.com/columns/the-commentators/developers-bad-guys/