Wednesday, February 22, 2006

* 49th Ward ZALUC Vetos Abels Plan

You won't find the "Happy Heart" in Connie Abels-ReMax North Coast window today or anytime soon. The 49th ZULAC committee vetoed her ""Restaurant in the Sky Plan"... for now.

Alderman Moore still holds the final call. Nothings a done deal. Anything still can happen while Alderman Moore and "Happy Heart" are in charge.

11 comments:

gf said...

craig-

wow. that traveling happy heart mascot campaign is like an episode straight out of the andy griffith show. andy, barney, aunt bee and all of mayberry would be proud.

and happy too.

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Blogger said...

Cousin R, if polygamy were legal I would be asking for your hand right now...

Thanks for reminding us how important touching the sun really is.

Blogger said...

Is the happy heart like the gnome in "Amelie"...?

Blogger said...

Blogger Bob has a blog? Add that to the list...

Hugh said...

> you can "congratulate" yourselves

> you guys arent tough enough when it matters and act like asses when it does,

> im not impressed with the CAVE element here

> well jeff is ashamed of you

Say jeffo,

Have you noticed how often in your posts you address the group as a group and tell us what we think? Because I have. I'd like to encourage you to please speak for yourself and lay off the "you guys..."

Hugh said...

Wow! The Morse Hell Hole as literary artifact made a great leap forward today with the inclusion of a reference to Le Corbusier.

Toto said...

Toto sez:

All you folk that complain about the so called "Edgewater Canyon" north of Hollywood suffer from short term memory loss.

You seem to forget that when these highrises were built (say 1965 thru 1980), was the period of highest white flight from the city. If it wasn't for these highrises, the entire northside probably would have become a ghetto. You only need to look at the Southshore community for comparison. The people living in these highrises stayed in the city and invested in the north side. Just imagine what Rogers Park would be like today if a significant amount of investment money had not stayed on the north side. Maybe Rogers Park would have been better off having a few more highrises too.

You are all so insular and smug about development with little reflection about the past. As for me, 8 unit condo buildings... Bring 'em on. More eyes on the street, more dollars in the stores.

I love the canyon. You folks think you can wish and dream Rogers Park into the second coming of Mayberry. Well wake up, it's the big city. And it can be dirty, and there's crime, and its crowded. But if I wanted to live in Mayberry, that's where I'd be. But I love the city, warts and all.

Blogger said...

Hey Roswell, maybe next time Connie can propose an "historic revision" of Ronchamp, except instead of a restaurant inside the roof, we could have some condor nests....

(poor old Courbusier, he did Ronchamp, and all anyone around here ever remembers him for are those sad misguided housing projects...)

gf said...

rp dude-

Oh - Jeff-O - but we did prove you wrong. We did shut this thing down. Your simplified reasoning that unabridged gentrification and development will occur here without community input is misguided. We are stakeholders here and we will be heard, considered, and respected for our valuable opinions or we’ll just vote our elected officials out of office. It’s really that simple. And that goes for Moore, Fagus, Schakowsky, Osterman, Hamos, Daley, and all of them. You wanna represent us? Then do it. We’re clearly a majority here and if you cross us you might as well start looking for a new job.

nicely said and my sentiments exactly. we ARE stakeholders here and we need to organize our efforts and become a voice that sends an unmistakeable message to leadership in the current election year.

Charlie Didrickson said...

annie said: Wow. All those white folks investing in their Sheridan Road highrises are what saved the people of Edgewater from the horror of living in a community of color then huh?

Care to explain? Demographics state that EdgeH20 is %50 white. It sure aint Mayberry.

chow

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