Re: [UC] PennPraxis and 40th St.

2008-09-06 Thread UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
Glenn moyer wrote: Anthony West wrote: PennPraxis facilitates a regular monthly forum at which neighbors who are either for or against the hotel proposal can communicate and learn. This is not a panacea, but running meetings is PennPraxis' chief stock in trade. If regular public meetings can't h

Re: [UC] PennPraxis and 40th St.

2008-09-06 Thread Anthony West
This community room is used as meeting space by various groups. Collectively, any people from around the community attend these groups' meetings there. A meeting in a senior residence hall is as normal as one in a church hall or a school auditorium. I don't think the presence of senior citizen

Re: [UC] PennPraxis and 40th St.

2008-09-06 Thread Glenn moyer
>Anthony West wrote: > >> PennPraxis facilitates a regular monthly forum at which neighbors who >> are either for or against the hotel proposal can communicate and learn. >> This is not a panacea, but running meetings is PennPraxis' chief stock >> in trade. If regular public meetings can't help you

Re: [UC] PennPraxis and 40th St.

2008-09-06 Thread Anthony West
One year is but the blink of an eye in complex developments with zoning and other neighborhood issues. Truly large-scale, multipartite ventures like Bart Blatstein's transformation of Northern Liberties have been going on since, egad, 2000 at least. Many parts of it have been controversial in t

RE: [UC] Distrust of city policies in Inq

2008-09-06 Thread Glenn moyer
"Furthermore, this sign decision is a positive indication that the fix isn't always in and that the Nutter administration does care about public process.  It may not always get it right, but it is trying to move in the right direction."   With the greatest respect for you Andy and other city empl