tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post5016076272790602964..comments2024-02-19T05:18:27.849-05:00Comments on <center>the Q at Parkside</center>: Wanna Make Some Noise About the Spice Factory Skyscraper?Clarkson FlatBedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13463744536115119388noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-13325664971369343892019-03-08T15:48:47.117-05:002019-03-08T15:48:47.117-05:00As a person who quit Facebook a year ago, I do fee...As a person who quit Facebook a year ago, I do feel like nearly everyone is on Facebook (and Twitter and Instagram) chitter-chattering away to no consequence. <br /><br />To quote my good friend Eleanor Finley, "The tragedy of our time is that people do not know what it means to be truly political." <br /><br />I will definitely re-circulate this post to the people who I think care, but I think this whole system is concocted to disenfrachise regular people, and unfortunately it is succeeding. <br />Camille Aceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08088945478653638179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1541468051247516447.post-80992619196055105522019-03-04T11:36:49.619-05:002019-03-04T11:36:49.619-05:00So far 1500 people have read this post. And I'...So far 1500 people have read this post. And I've gotten 3 emails from people interested in finding a way to prevent the full height. Maybe there's some big effort out there (constructive!) to fight overdevelopment and under-affordability.<br /><br />I get 10 times more emails when a new restaurant opens.<br /><br />Conclusion: For all the hemming and hawing, I don't believe people really want to do something about outsized development. Or for that matter, they're not interested in working for more and wider new affordable housing. They "meet," form "talking committees" with cute acronyms. Meanwhile, owners are fat with equity. Same as it ever was.<br /><br />There are lots of us who have been talking about the coming BIG D development for years. I"m done. And good luck. Happy to sign a petition, donate a small bit, show up at your meeting, post it on the blog.<br /><br />Sometimes I wonder if people have started to think venting on Facebook is the same thing as community organizing? <br /><br />I love you Lefferts. But I'm a bit underwhelmed.The Qnoreply@blogger.com