All, There seems to be three aspects of the assertation of neighborhood fiefdom's and the NRP.
The first is that the neighborhoods currently act like little fiefdoms. The second is that there didn't use to be little feifdoms and now there are. The third is that this is bad. Rather then just assumptions and rhetoric. I would be interested in specifics. What is a fiefdom? What is an example of neighborhoods acting like a feifdom? What is the basis of the conclusion that "feifdom" behavior is the norm? When did the neighborhoods not act like feifdoms? When did that change? Is it correlated with the design of the NRP, or with the organic development of neighborhoods within a city structure? What is bad about neighborhoods focusig on issue on a neighborhood scale? What examples are there for where an individual neighborhood action has been harmful to the collective interests of the city? Everywhere I go in Minneapolis I see examples of neighborhoods working together. To me -- that appears to be the norm. When neighborhoods are working on their own, it is because the issue or the solution is specific to the local geographic area. Nowhere am I seeing neighborhoods at war. I have not see or heard any example of where fiefdom-ism has undermined collective civic interests. Of course, my experience may be atypical. Joseph Barisonzi Lyndale, Ward 10 _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
