Re: [UC] Urbane, or urban, vs. suburbs

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In a message dated 4/2/2004 4:30:01 PM Eastern Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There is a long process in the current ordinance which involves notification of all owners, and public meetings where they are to voice their opinions, once the Philadelphia Historical Commission is ready to work on the nomination.  That process takes about a year.  There will be plenty of time for all to weigh in.  You and others keep pretending not to know this, and you disseminate false information to the public to scare our neighbors.  Your bending of the facts is appalling.  I am not going to debate you on line when you are dishonest about the process.  Sorry, Melanie, but you are not correct here.   Just because the PHC has to hold hearings doesn't make the process democratic. I've been at their meetings and hearings. And I can assure you they are not conducted in a democratic way. People who say some things are given lots of time to speak, those who try to say something else are quickly passed over, or are even treated rudely by the chairman of the commission. Moreover, there is nothing that requires the PHC to pay attention to one view or another. They can and do hear lots of objections and ignore them.   A real democratic process would involve actually soliciting votes and counting them.   So Brian isn't being dishonest about the process. And he isn't disseminating false information. Unlike a certain ardent proponent who wrote a bunch of things in the University City review about "absentee landlords," contributions to Mrs Blackwell's campaign coffers, and housing with 10 or more residents in single-family occupancies -- and, so far, has graciously declined the opportunities available to back up his assertions with anything as silly as data.   So let's not be accusing those of us against historic designation, who happen to have research behind us (some of which is available on the internet at www.iconworldwide.com/histodis)  of mendacity, when the shoe is really on the other foot.     Always at your service and ready for a dialog, Al Krigman