Anthony West wrote:
No, Ray, it's the opposite of your point. When putting together a large
team of partners, none of which by itself is adequate to the task at
hand, one always seeks as much money from as many partners as possible.
No rational agent will exclude any responsible donor for any reason.
UCD's agenda is just as good as Citizens Bank's agenda or DCNR's agenda,
provided it can be fit into the park's agenda. FoCP will sock 'em all
for every penny they're worth, thank them all sincerely, and go out
looking for more.
But no minority agenda can *change* a consensus agenda like this
dramatically. So it is impossible for Clark Park's overall agenda ever
to become "UCD's agenda" unless UCD's agenda already largely agrees with
the agendas of the other players.
As for your five-year-old news clipping below, I notice you were careful
not to tell us it was from ... the Daily Penn! The undergraduate
on-campus paper. Ray, I gotta ask, what is it with you and the DP? You
talk more about the college kids' paper than everybody else on UC-list
put together. Did you work for it when you were an undergrad?
In this case, the college kid seems befuddled, as far west as 43rd St.
She mislabeled the Revitalization Master Plan "UCD's plan." Probably
that was a common misconception in the neighborhood at that time. The
renewal plan was only seven months old (that meeting took place in
January 2002, not November as you report) and most people were as
confused then by the structure of a complex partnership as you are today.
But it was not UCD's plan then any more than it is today. The plan
belonged to three partners: the Dept. of Recreation, Friends of Clark
Park and University City District. It was developed in conjunction with
18 other organizations. It was paid for by a grant from the William Penn
Foundation. Eddie R. Battle Assoc. organized the public meetings. Simone
Jaffe Collins Landscape Architecture developed the plan....
Too much for the Penn reporter to get into her story, I suppose. She was
merely reporting what people who didn't know much about the renewal plan
thought it was. So it isn't a very good source of information about the
plan itself, is it? For that, you would have to interview someone who
helped formulate the plan. Or perhaps even read the thing yourself. You
still can. It hasn't gone away.
haha -- all this, to convince yourself now that focp members
didn't protest ucd's park renewal plan!
and everyone is befuddled -- except you, tony west!
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