Dana Bacon wrote: > Personally, I support the majority of changes proposed > by the McKenzie report. Still, I do have a pair of > concerns I'd like to share. > > One is that whatever mechanism is used to give > neighborhoods more of a say in city planning, that > voting mechanism should be carefully designed to > balance local and citywide interests. I do not have a > clear proposal in mind on this point, but I am > concerned that better organized neighborhoods could > manipulate the planning outcomes to the disadvantage > of less organized neighborhoods. These things will > always happen to some extent, but that doesn't mean we > have to make it worse through negligent planning.
Whatever mechanism is used to give neighborhoods more of a say in city planning I hope that the mechanism is representative of the residents and not the neighborhood associations; a factor noted by the report. Michael Atherton Prospect Park _______________________________________ 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
