Glenn moyer wrote:
I missed this one. This an interesting "editorial"
It makes sense that some young writer, inexperienced journalist, would be susceptible to the snakes behind the Penn propaganda machine. I doubt Ms Hart understood how she and the DP were being used.
http://media.www.dailypennsylvanian.com/media/storage/paper882/news/2008/03/03/Opinion/Editorial.Responsible.Development-3246870.shtml
this editorial, which the dp's 'opinion board' published in
the dp on 3 mar 2008, began like this:
It's time for Campus Inn to check in to its new home at 40th
and Pine streets.
just days before, on feb 27, our neighbor mary nixon wrote a
letter to the uc review (http://tinyurl.com/3tezvp) which
went like this:
It is time for Tom Lussenhop and company to find another
site for their aggressively greedy hotel.... After an
incredible amount of criticism, nothing ever changes. He
still insists on the same number of rooms, the attached
restaurant, the maximum of four onsite parking spaces. How
many times can you say IT'S TOO BIG before he hears you?
...
It is time for the Spruce Hill zoning Committee to realize
that the only ones benefiting from this project are the
University of Pennsylvania and the developer.
...
It is time for the University of Pennsylvania to relinquish
control of 400 S. 40th Street and to put the property up for
sale.
clearly, the dp's 'opinion board' was reading, and
responding to, mary nixon's opinion in the uc review. and
this 'opinion board' shifted the issue to one of parking,
reducing the height/scale issue to one of mere aesthetics:
That doesn't mean neighborhood concerns, especially about
potential traffic congestion, are unfounded.
Penn officials need to ensure that developers provide extra
parking and try to respect the aesthetic landscape of the
low-rise community.
what the dp's 'opinion board' -- and, later, pcpc -- are
ignoring here is that the hotel's massive height/scale is
not just an aesthetic problem, it's not a visual that can be
blurred away or gotten 'used to'. it's the root problem,
defining the size and scale of all the other issues, like
traffic and parking and density and future development.
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