"In this case, that would be Spruce Hill Community Association."
Karen,
I don't know if you heard this. (I think it was Primavera, one of the Penn lawyers, testifying.) He testified that the developers "had to" get approval from this Spruce Hill association for the hotel project to proceed. OK then, let's see about that!
Barry must have been lurking behind the wall the whole time. I didn't see him untilthe end whenI spotted him immediately scurrying to the Penn team.
Personally, I feel the people of this community need to take this damned SHCA to the federal authoritiesto get them stripped of their 501 c 3 status. We have been waiting since february for this SHCA " the community" to show at least some minimal integrity and responsibility to the real people of this community instead of to Lussenhop, DiRitis, and Adelman.
I've been calling out to people to take action against this SHCA/UCHS/FOCP gang. I know it's hard for our neighbors to get into conflicts with these people.Nothing about neighborhood conlicts is pleasant.
Penn is not going to stop its destruction of this community.Our neighbors, these "anointed," have proven their betrayal and have proven where their loyalties lie.
The vast majority of people in this neighborhood are going to need to decide if they are going to continue to allow these anointed tobetray us because the conflict would be unpleasant! They better consider the consequences of staying silent.
(I wonder how Melani is reporting her performance on the censored Penn list?-hahaha)
Glenn
-Original Message- From: KAREN ALLEN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Sent: Sep 17, 2008 11:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], univcity@list.purple.com Subject: RE: [UC] Three terrible ideas-Campus Inn
At yesterday's hearing (I was the "woman holding a large sign reading NO HOTEL in our HOOD",thank you very much, DP!), I had a concern regardingthe "75 dedicated parking spaces" Penn promised in their parking lots: I was concerned thatPenn was promising that now just to get thebuilding built, and onceit was up, the parking spaces would disappear. The agreement will be between Penn and the developers,which means that the neighbors would haveto rely onLussenhop and CampusApartments a/k/a David Adelmanto demand enforcement of that agreement. Given Lussenhop and Adelman's relationship with Penn, it is highly doubtful, in my opinion, that if Penn told them thatthe spaces were being pulled,they would do anything to enforce the provision unless, of course, it hurt their bottom line. If the result was simply a matter of causing parking problems for the neighbors, Lussenhop/Adelman/Penn would just send their mouthpiece out to insult everybody's intellegence by telling them some sob story about howthere was never really any such agreement, how if there was, poor Penn can't be expected to live up to their agreements; that Penn's mission is education, not parking;and that theneighborsshould just shut up andconvert their kids' play yards/side yards/rear bedroomsintoparking lots. Or they would trot out rental-property mogul"Danny" DeRitis to tell everyone (paraphrasing his testimony yesterday) thathe lived in this neighborhood leventy-zillion years ago, and since he left,there are "hardly any residents" in that area anyway [apparantly, his tenants don't count as residents].In light of this concern, I broached the question to the Commission: who has standing to enforce the parking provision? Did the neighbors have to rely on two like-minded parties for the enforcement of this provision? Later in the hearing, it was stated that the local community association would have standing to enforce the parking provision.In this case, that would be Spruce Hill Community Association. Yo, Chris O'Donnell: I know a good paving contractor!
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 08:25:52 -0400Subject: [UC] Three terrible ideas, and the Nutter Administration is just getting its feet wetTo: UnivCity@list.purple.com
The UNISYS sign on One Liberty Place (the ZBA turned it down, does anyone know where the PCPC stood on this?)
Putting the Foxwoods slot parlor into the space now occupied as The Gallery (Nutter and Rendell are for it; Chinatown leaders -- whose area backs up onto the Gallery -- are strongly opposed. Has anyone really considered issues like traffic, the clientele it will attract to Market Street East, the chance that people will really use SEPTA to get there?)
Campus Inn (whatever happened to "vox populi, vox dei est"? Also, is the report in the DP really true, that the developers' attorney"said the approval application submitted to the ZBA stipulated that the hotel be used for extended-stay visits only"? If this isthe case,then what happens if someone comes in and just wants a room for the night?Will they be legally required to either turn the person down or rent the room for whatever the stated minimum for "ex
