Anthony West wrote:
PennPraxis facilitates a regular monthly forum at which neighbors who
are either for or against the hotel proposal can communicate and learn.
This is not a panacea, but running meetings is PennPraxis' chief stock
in trade. If regular public meetings can't help your faction, then yes,
PennPraxis hasn't helped it and can't help it. It's not a sort of
Planning Police, if that's what you have in mind.
If the people who show up at Friends of 40th St. meetings frequently
express concern about the hotel proposal, then PennPraxis would likely
record it in some way. By the same token, if nobody ever mentions
opposition at any of these regular meetings, that too becomes a datum
-- a way to measure public opinion. No one owns a copyright to the
phrase "the neighbors", after all.
As for UCHS -- didn't Karen recently mention that one of its board
members testified to its opposition to the hotel proposal at some public
hearing? That sounds like help for the anti-hotel faction. It was clear
she had wanted even more help. But that doesn't mean it didn't help.
SHCA helps both sides as well as the ZBA by providing a Zoning
Committee. An organization that acted without a report from its Zoning
Committee would seem impetuous and unreliable. In a long game, one needs
a closer as well as an opener.
haha all this 'help' for both developer and neighbors, and
here we all are, one year later!
long game indeed.
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