[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
UC:
Interesting point which suggests two corollaries:
1. Some people would change positions to support or opposition
if the building had a different intended use - residential, classroom,
or yoga - but was in the same location and had the same size.
2. You can't compare the proposed building to any existing
building, because no existing building has the same location, use and size.
3. (this isn't a corollary). And if the proposal was moved to
the lot on Walnut Street, would people change positions? I think the
question is useful because it helps clarify why people are in favor,
opposed or don't really care.
thanks, yes... what I'm trying to convey is that it's not
'this feature' or 'that feature' that drives this hotel
proposal, so pointing to examples which imitate this feature
or that feature (or this empty lot or that empty lot) isn't
really useful (beyond a limited point) and it's also a
distraction. because it misses the 'gestalt' of the proposal
(the sum total, all the features taken together -- even the
process, the consequences, etc.) which we consider when
taking a position one way or another.
it's the commercial nature of the proposal that makes all of
its features what they are (and these features aren't
changing or being compromised) and it's the commercial
nature of the proposal that's raising the re-zoning
question. and so the basic public question is one of
commercial interests vs residential ones (in this case,
penn's commercial interests and our residential ones)...
(and THAT is the precedent that would be set, if the hotel
were approved: others' commercial interests upheld over our
residential interests, not simply 'this kind of building'
with 'these kinds of features' appearing all over the
neighborhood...)
(and this precedent's consequences don't necessarily have to
be in the form of a building; they could also take the form
of future policy-making, planning, etc....)
still thinking out loud here... thinking in bigger arcs...
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UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN
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