tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post8626608491858254720..comments2024-03-28T17:55:31.180-04:00Comments on The Gossips of Rivertown: In the Fullness of TimeCarole Osterinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16010623982526286408noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5723709701684173708.post-78810673662024315482019-08-11T09:45:05.916-04:002019-08-11T09:45:05.916-04:00Why does this post read like an indictment of negl...Why does this post read like an indictment of negligent wrong-doing? From the tone you'd think that the Planning Task Force was originally the idea of the disappointed blogger.<br /><br />If the sheer ambition to build such a large and beneficial institution is moving too slowly for anyone, then the pace is set by responsibility and care.<br /><br />If that were only so with previous Common Councils! To provide missing context, compare our present Council with any of its predecessors over the last 10 years. The cumulative failures of the previous Councils continue to astound in number and impact. <br /><br />Chief among the botched efforts was the LWRP itself, our waterfront program, which is named in this post. <br /><br />Had the 2009 Council not accepted the draft LWRP prematurely, then we might have a state-approved LWRP today. <br /><br />The ensuing process only deepened our divisions, the healing of which should have been a priority in City Hall. Instead, we got years of autocracy lording it over soft-minded Aldermen and a largely silenced public. The results which were poor at best were all traceable to bad leadership. <br /><br />Under the aegis of the LWRP, the 2011 Council ratified a Zoning Map which wouldn't be created for another 13 months (!). Today, that same map continues to bewilder and will soon vex the ZBA for a second time in as many years. <br /><br />Later efforts to revamp the LWRP - both of them failures - were further proof of the difficulty of institution-building in Hudson.<br /><br />Time is not "running out" for the Planning Task Force, and this Council, perhaps the best we've ever seen, will not discontinue such an important effort.unheimlichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00204285837938988668noreply@blogger.com