When I made my case regarding no parking on Morse last November, commenters complained I was stalling a quality project on Morse because of this single issue. I'm still firm, the Century Public House still needs to find parking spots. That's Andy MeGhee's job.
Then why is Kim Bares creating another taxpayer funded study to address the issue, when there are so many boarded up, vacant store fronts on her own block?
Kim Bares said....> "DevCorp North conducted a brief parking study to analyze the availability of parking during different hours. Parking on weekend nights was the biggest challenge, where over 90% of the available spaces were occupied. DevCorp North is currently in negotiations with St. Jerome Church."
Urban planning genius Tom Westgard said this about the DevCorp North parking plan, "A cynical person might think that these unconsummated negotiations are being announced for a cynical reason, such as, say, to create the superficial impression of improving conditions, when the reality is that no progress has actually occurred. Can anyone think of a person who would benefit from that?"
Blognotes: Simply put, "You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on." That's how Alderman Moore, Kim Bares and DevCorp North do it with their Special Service Area #19 and 24 tax dollars.
Alderman Moore's 1994 letter regarding the parking problems in the 1300 block of West Morse Avenue. That's 13 years and nothing has been solved.
3 comments:
HEY DEVCORP NORTH
WHERE'S THE PARKING STUDY?
Please post it on your website.
We taxpayers pay for your website.
We taxpayers paid for that study.
We taxpayers pay for DevCorp North.
So post it. It belongs to us. We want to se it.
"Can anyone think of a person who would benefit from that?"
I have three answers to that:
1) The people getting the grant money to do the study benefit. Duh.
2) Politicians and institutions like DevCorp benefit by appearing to be proactive.
3) Maybe nobody benefits, but that does not stop government waste and inefficiency. It's possible that they're just being stupid and/or ineffective.
Would this be the 44th or 45th DevCorp study that never lead to any implementation? (Real numbers, folks.)
Or maybe it's more than that by now.
Maybe they'd be kind enough to take down those dusty "economic development" metrics and replace it with a running tally of studies they do, their authors, those author's qualifications, and where those studies lead.
We taxpayers have a right to know.
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