Report: As many people suspected, SHCA President Ed Haligen, was present to support Campus Inn at the recent PHC charade/hearing to rubber stamp the towering project. His testimony attempted to make the case that the community is evenly divided in support or opposition to the hotel. He claimed that the split vote of the zoning committee “reflected” the opinion of the larger community, insinuating a 50-50 split among all of us.
Additionally, the Penn lawyer maintained the false assertion that many many SHCA public meetings had educated the community. Mr. Halligen supported this too and claimed that he remembered “hundreds” coming to SHCA elections in Nov. 2007. Of course he knew, no Campus Inn forum was announced to SHCA members, let alone the general public! Note: (As I reported the day of the hearing, the PHC commission repeatedly silenced our neighbors when they attempted to correct those lies. After the lies were provided by Penn in testimony, PHC claimed that public meetings were irrelevant to their standards, as they silenced our neighbors trying to challenge the lies. Of course, PHC didn’t follow the appropriate preservation standards, and have freely allowed the lies from the Penn team, about public support and engagement, throughout the year long charade.) SHCA Background: SHCA leaders had been conducting secret meetings with the developers since before the public knew of the hotel proposal. (Apparently, SHCA supported the original request to delist/demolish the historically designated property while keeping that attempt from us in early 2007.) Repeatedly, SHCA leaders shielded lies about public forums and engagement with the community. They championed their secret meetings to be misrepresented as public forums with the community. Mr. Grossbach, chairman of SHCA zoning committee, was present in Oct 2007 when the developers first lied, in recorded testimony, about an SHCA process of community engagement. He waited until Feb. 2008 to admit that the claims were false even though repeated requests for clarification were made immediately and continuously after the developers first lied! (He claimed the lies were all insignificant mistakes, a few hours before the public had him cornered) On several subsequent occasions, SHCA member meetings were sighted as public forums yet we know that a series of “mistakes” caused the organization to always forget to announce its public forums, even to members. February 2008: When the community caught these slippery SHCA leaders, and unanimously rejected the hotel in February; the SHCA leaders insisted that they would keep their dirty noses out of the debate because a lawyer had been hired. What they were doing was to refuse all subsequent SHCA members’ public discussions and simultaneously refused to honor the demands of the community to reject it. What a contemptuous ploy!!!! Recently, the SHCA leaders pounced at their chance with more secret meetings, to provide a position of “non-opposition,” even though they had publicly announced that they would keep their dirty noses out of the proceedings. Dec. 2008: Now Haligen (accompanied by Hardy), testifies to a government commission in support of the false claims of public meetings, and twists the “non-opposition” of the dirty zoning committee, as a reflection of the community sentiments. The SHCA members must ask, how dare this Haligan show up and use this non-opposition as support for Campus Inn, and reinforce the direct lies about SHCA facilitating a series of public forums? The people of the community must ask the on-going question. How dare these SHCA jerks continue to assert that any of their secret meetings and other shit “reflects” the views of this community???? How many times are we going to sit back and let these dirty contemptuous “community leaders” do the same crap to our community? Reporting, Glenn Moyer, citizen journalist PS: UC Review has made a report of the PHC meeting and this is my second. There is much more to discuss, report, and question about the PHC charade. Please ask questions and I’ll do my best to answer. ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see <http://www.purple.com/list.html>.
