I do not believe that an interpretation of length and width as being
based on north-south and east-west coordinates has a chance of being
accepted by a court or a jury. The charter is not vague--nothing in it
mentions anything about using such coordinates when determining length
and width. In the
Jackie Cherryhomes told me once that one Charter rule was that each ward
had to have part of downtown and all parts of a ward must be one land
mass. This, she said, was to keep the poor from being under-represented.
We had this conversation in a pizzaria on Broadway at a cross street
that
In a message dated 7/24/03 5:59:29 PM Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jackie Cherryhomes told me once that one Charter rule was that each ward
had to have part of downtown
Well, I don't know if Jackie ever actually said that, but if she did, she must have been talking about