I find it highly disingenous that the committee voted "no' to this project when they voted an overwhelming "yes" to several other projects that had even higher subsidizies just a few months ago. Oops I forgot. Those projects were in Ventura Village, Phillips and Stevens Square.
Is the real message here that it's o.k. to subsidize these when they are in concentrated neighborhoods regardless of cost, but, when they are in fortress neighborhoods it isn't o.k. to subsidize them?
If the $36.000+ Craig reported is truly the subsidy amount this is a huge bargain in comparison to some of the subsidizies that have been given to projects in Whittier and Phillips in the not too distant past. Did the council get some new sort of religion now? What prompted the move to stricter fiscal scrutiny where these projects are concerned? Why did the new discipline happen with this project and not Many Rivers, Pokegama, East Village, Hope Community, CVI or Lydia House?
Barb Lickness/Whittier
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