By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 18:40:54 +0000

Dear Cville Eye,I am SHOCKED to find hypocrites in our fair city and community.

By: Cville Eye

Cville Eye — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:35:58 +0000

To have this information repeatedly ignored speaks to the caliber of city officials we have because of the people we elect. It has been clear to me for years that the only reason the city designates areas as historic is because that lh that designation design control That is why the city has held its two lots hostage for decades. It wants to determine how development in the city will look. It hasn’t realized that our local government has never designed anything of the order of what has been done without the city’s design input.
I hope Ms. Roades has enjoyed her research; she will not enjoy anything else about it.
Only hypocrites would enact steep-slope development restricts and then grant every petitioner a waiver. Only a hypocrite would enact stream protection measures and then grant waivers for the bribe of proffers. Only a hypocrite would press for increased canopies, then vote to destroy it. Only a hypocrite would campaign on public safety and then approve egress onto the middle of the steep hill between Ridge and Fifth streets. Only a hypocrite would harangue neighborhoods to participate in the process and then treat their voices with disdain. Only a hypocrite would involve the public in an 18-month rezoning process city-wide and then grant every rezoning petition on individual lots in total opposition to the neighborhood. Only a hypocrite would encourage citizens to participate in citizen leadership training and then spend then that time to teach the participants to trust City Hall’s direction and spend their time helping the officials attain their pre-determined goals. I suspect there will be fewer than five neighborhood residents attending the Planning Commission’s meeting on Sept. 8.

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