In a message dated 7/11/2007 2:48:02 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So why can't I talk about a dead topic, and really ask what the community wants? Why not just tell us what you think you'd be willing to pay for, and that -- realistically -- the majority of others would, too. And how much you and your neighbors whose financial situation might differ from yours would be willing to pay? And, if you can't come up with some tangible things that fit the whole of University City, maybe you could suggest some things that people in a more limited area -- say a few blocks around where you own or rent, live or conduct business, would agree was worth a self-imposed tax to get? While your at it, maybe you have a few ideas to at least start a rational discussion regarding means by which decisions about the allocation of resources would be made. I submit that starting with the premise that UCD's NID initiative is dead and beginning afresh would get further than defending a proposal that was doomed to failure from the way it was conceived and gone about.** Or, maybe you did, but it got lost in all the rhetoric. Al (If you think I try to scare people, you should meet Pluto) Krigman ** Consider this. The opponents to the NID learned something from their def eat in the Alexander School catchment controversy in this neighborhood. A comparable, partly overlapping group, used what they learned there to defeat the Historic District plan. Now again, in what's amounted to putting the NID to rest, the proponents are still in the "catchment mode" and didn't learn anything from their defeat in the HD. ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com.
