Ray,
Are you a dues-paying member of SHCA? I am, so I have standing when I
speak about SHCA actions.
Your criticisms of SHCA procedures show no awareness of practical
Association issues at any level. The subject of how to run a civic group
in the city of Philadelphia is one you have relentlessly refused to
learn anything about, for many years. What is your background in this
field? Are you prepared to tell your neighbors what you are good at, and
why your opinion on how to decide a zoning issue might be valuable to us
all? In your personal experience with zoning committees, what is it
Barry did wrong that you have done better, when you were personally
called to make these difficult decisions in previous Zoning Committees
you have sat on?
UC-list has a right to know exactly how much of an expert you are, on a
subject you represent yourself as a judge.
-- Tony West
actually, barry didn't do what he should have done. his original
announcement of this meeting placed the location at the shca's offices
on 45th street -- a ridiculously small venue, given the wide public he
acknowledged was invited and necessary for the process.
it was the neighbors (and not you) doing what THEY should have done --
namely, securing a venue large enough to accommodate them, asking
zoning members with conflicts of interest to recuse themselves, and
then attending (having done their homework about the project) and
presenting their questions and comments -- that brought about the
first public forum (publicly announced, at a non-penn venue) about
this hotel since news about it was first published back in october 2007.
and, as we've all seen -- as eyewitnesses and participants at the
meeting, not as commentators who weren't there -- this public meeting
demonstrated overwhelming opposition to this hotel and virtually no
support for it.
neither you nor lussenhop nor the shca zoning committee can possibly
alter this, or ignore this, or spin this any other way.
this public meeting was conducted along groundrules that shca set up
as the public process; schc must now honor the results.
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