http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/03/04/planning-commission-170-feet-for-south-u/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=planning-commission-170-feet-for-south-u it's like being there Tue, 16 Sep 2014 04:56:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.2 http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/03/04/planning-commission-170-feet-for-south-u/comment-page-1/#comment-12315 Bob Snyder Wed, 04 Mar 2009 21:36:40 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=15377#comment-12315 David-
The Planning Commission article is an excellent and impartial recounting of a seriously flawed and inept decision-making body! Whether one agrees or not (I’m a “not”) with the final outcome (170 foot height “limit”), the confused and disorderly way the Commissioners reached their “final decision” (if indeed it is “final”) was reminiscent of the Keystone Kops! All 8 of them, save the one lone dissenting vote by an staunch champion of the neighborhoods, Commissioner Eppie Potts, made a mockery of citizen participation in the planning process. Try as the City will, South University is not “downtown”, and certainly doesn’t qualify as a D-1 designation, let alone barely a D-2. Here’s hoping that City Council has the will and wisdom to reject the Planning Commission’s un-planning and bring the future of South University back closer to ground level where it belongs.
Bob Snyder, President, South University Neighborhood Association

]]> http://annarborchronicle.com/2009/03/04/planning-commission-170-feet-for-south-u/comment-page-1/#comment-12302 Marc Gerstein Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:06:39 +0000 http://annarborchronicle.com/?p=15377#comment-12302 Hi Dave Askins,
Thanks for your persistence in staying through the Planning Commission meeting last night and then writing and posting your article so that those like me who left early thinking that it was all over for the South U discussion could see what a dastardly deed had been committed — voting 3 times on what was essentially the same awful amendment! It was actually me and not your real and literary neighborhood woman who uttered an astonished and derisive “Hah” when Westfall had the chutzpah — ultimately successful — to reintroduce the defeated amendment. Many thanks. Marc

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