Wrong on both points.
UCD was asked by a principal to give input on the Dock Street Brewpub.
This I have from one of the participants who is not of UCD.
PennPraxis was hired five years or so ago to facilitate development of a
business plan for 40th Street, by various 40th Street actors. It did so;
job completed. Now Ray is pretending it's PennPraxis' job to be
perennially "vocal" about every change of properties on a strip one of
its clients hired it to write a plan for, many moons ago. It's just that
Ray wants PennPraxis to work for him now, but for free this time.
I don't get it. Ray isn't proposing to pay PennPraxis to mediate his
neighborhood for him, in his favor. Nor is he volunteering his own
services to the neighborhood, to do a better and juster job than
PennPraxis did for less pay.
Why should PennPraxis eternally critique every commercial controversy on
40th St. for free? Ray doesn't give what he does for a living away for
free, and neither do I.
I had a great weekend in the mountains of Pennsylvania and I hope you
too enjoyed a break, though.
-- Tony West
Neither UCD nor PennPraxis has any sort of warrant to weigh in on a
zoning issue, until some neighborhood group asks them for their
assistance. It would be bizarre and stupid for them to do so.
without being asked, ucd got heavily involved with the zoning question
wrt dock street at the firehouse a year ago. ucd took sides, yet they
have remained curiously non-vocal and non-visible wrt this hotel scheme.
without being asked, penn praxis created what was supposed to be an
ongoing dialog wrt the 40th st development, yet they have remained
curiously non-vocal and non-visible wrt this hotel scheme.
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