>>>>> "TB" == Terrell Brown <Terrell> writes:
[...snip...]
TB> The Lake Calhoun area has many taller buildings. Lake Point
TB> is 20 stories (242 feet), Calhoun Towers is 21 stories (191
TB> feet), Calhoun Beach Club 9 stories (118 feet), the new
TB> Calhoun Beach apartments come in at 12 stories as does 3141
TB> Dean Court. The Council committee appears to be acting
TB> arbirarily in voting down this project. Perhaps the whole
TB> Council will not be so arbitrary.
Actually, those buildings are all in a different neighborhood, on the
North and West of the lake and don't put stresses on the CARAG
neighborhood (my old neighborhood). I can't speak to the issues of
the neighborhood where those buildings are, but it just isn't the same
one as the new development.
As an aside, there's a lot of what I think is well-justified concern
about having Lake Calhoun lose its shoreline to urban build-up. I
don't mind the city, but I still like to have a lake that has a park
on its shoreline, instead of a downtown.
TB> NIMBY has lived again, too bad NIMBY isn't a cat, they only
TB> have 9 lives.
I'd like to raise this to the level of discussing the discussion. Why
is it that on this list it seems impossible for people to disagree
about the issues without stooping to thinly-disguised name-calling?
In the discussion about the aesthetics and practicality of this
development, an issue about which surely people of goodwill can
disagree, we have seen, first, an attack that said that all the people
who objected (but one) were outside-the-neighborhood troublemakers,
and now this NIMBY name-calling. What gives? How about a little more
respect for people's different opinions and less rushing to impute
sinister motives to everyone who disagrees?
--
Robert P. Goldman
ECCO
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