A partial moratorium is placed on answering certain questions put forward by the public too.
(As a rule of thumb to all you public, you will have to file a public records request, then wait 10 business days, only to often find that your request has gone to the attorney general for a finding on whether your local government has to actually give you the public information you asked for, but only on the ones that they don't want you to have. Or the claim will be that there's nothing that answers your request for information, often not true. And by the time you might get information, you are just a little too late officially to give your input.)
It is good on one hand that the City wants to avoid another lawsuit, and block an undesirable development, without being accused of singling it out for blocking which is what is happening, but from a risk assessment point of view, they wouldn't be facing lawsuits if they would do right by things. Another case of hurry up, we've waited twenty years. Hurry up, we have played around over a year.
If one hair gets out of place in our perfect vision, all is doomed! (Wait, we really don't have rules for our vision after all the gum flapping and hob knobbing, so you wait right there until we do!)
"This is a time out." "This will give us time." Gosh, you regular people, even a nine year old can understand that!
Can't you see I've been busy combing my hair and bumping elbows!
Another point of view, can't you see a head politician and my spouse are trying to repair their broken trust relationship after a head politician welched out on the business deal involving city funds with my spouse in favor of his developer friend, and all the while I am serving as a top appointee!
Another point of view still, can't you see that I almost got kicked off of the committee. I can give you clues, but if I come right out with too much, I will no longer be on the inside.
This just in, City creates time (by foot dragging by the deans and through use of a special hearing aid called moratorium, not used in previous zoning development).
All very cool. Very cool.
In other news, the holiday rush is in full swing. It is a well known device in the political and development world that the holidays are the best time to rush things through. Take a four lane road through a nature area and pass it on a consent agenda after bed time, during the winter of 2006.
An added benefit of clearing the calendar of things of great ideas that need to be rushed through or blocked is it allows committee members who want to run for city council to give an assured vote before resigning and it allows city council a less rowdy election time filled with lower keyed issues that need to be voted on. The public has a very short memory, the small portion that cares. They won't know and if they do they won't remember anything unless it is with fondness the beautiful brass embellishment plates with pillar names and boyish impish grinning pillars. (That's always the hope and plan, but it might not work out exactly like that round here).
For the life of me, I can't find my invitation to the Mayor's Christmas Party. I know I already paid for it. I buy at least two every year. Now where is that. Here tickie tickie, here tickie tickie.
