On 1/14/14, 10:26 AM, Steve Smith wrote:
It *was* city funds, specifically for this purpose that brought in the
huge yellow machines for a week to rip out the pavement, pour curbs
and sidewalks and dump a hundred tons of soil and maybe even lay the sod.
But it wasn't the Berkeley City council deciding that this particular
parking lot would be better off being a park... how could they know
that, really? They knew it when a critical mass (5%, 10%?) of the
locals to that neighborhood decided to apply to their program for
doing precisely this kind of project.
Then I'd say that's an example of government working. It's control
mechanism involved tapping the people that knew it best. Good. But for
goodness sake tap the city infrastructure in making it so. It's not that
that leadership hijacked the resource from the public funds, it's that
they didn't waste it.
Marcus
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