tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post7306786613281251029..comments2024-03-28T07:07:09.686-07:00Comments on The Emeryville Tattler: Bike Boulevard Constrains Sherwin Williams Project, Developer Not Concerned Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-18920350223365141442013-11-06T18:46:31.488-08:002013-11-06T18:46:31.488-08:00If you re read the piece, you'll note the poin...If you re read the piece, you'll note the point I'm trying to make is that it's most unusual that a developer would not be interested in familiarizing himself with a legal municipal framework that would constrain his own proposed multi-million dollar project. The fact you had not read our Bike Plan is most interesting. I think it doesn't represent an oversight on your part, rather a comfort level you must have with the three Council members. What other conclusion would a rational person make, especially since you're putting so much money at risk. To be so cavalier with your investment is most unusual. Your statement (above) that you are accepting of the constrains of the Plan is something I would expect you would say publicly, the obvious reasons being that there's no law broken on your part if this is sentiment not entirely true and your interests would be served by such a public statement regardless of any contradictory subterfuge on your part. To put it bluntly; we would expect you to say this now.<br /><br />Iv'e always assumed developers wouldn't break the law but they would misrepresent themselves if it served their financial interests. I've seen it too many times to assume anything different. Developers after all are interested in making a profit be it for their shareholders or simply in service of their bottom lines. You may not fit this mold, and I hope you don't, but if that were the case, that would make you an outlier...and we shouldn't construct public policy based on assuming outliers are the norm. To act that way would be to act the rube. That's no way to conduct public policy. We have assume each profit seeking entity is normal, not an outlier.<br /><br />Having said all this, I hope it's true that you are comfortable with our Bike Plan and you won't work behind the scenes to subvert it. Hope only goes so far though as I'm sure you can sympathize. <br />Thanks for your comment.Brian Donahuehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12705682112476904502noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-56965214948238176462013-11-06T17:13:26.813-08:002013-11-06T17:13:26.813-08:00Brian,
Unfortunately your assessment could not be...Brian,<br /><br />Unfortunately your assessment could not be further from the truth. Frankly, from what is in the public record, I am not sure how you can arrive at these conclusions. At our very first meeting with the Park Avenue Committee, I had not yet read the Bike/Ped plan. I will give you that. But since that time I have and we are on record supporting the policies that impact our project site. From the outset, we have been very clear we support the Horton Street Bicycle Corridor and the need to install traffic calming devices to preserve a safe environment for cyclists. See the video from the Planning Commission Study Session. We have said we'd support such devices between Sherwin and 45th if this is where the community wants to install its calming measures. You know this. I don't mind you raising legitimate differences in support of community wants and needs, but please don't mislead others with false information. We want a good, mutually beneficial working relationship with the community going forward. Thank you.Joe Ernstnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-15079573828754362862013-11-05T19:28:44.112-08:002013-11-05T19:28:44.112-08:00Hats off to the Tattler for connecting the dots. F... Hats off to the Tattler for connecting the dots. From what's going on under our noses, it's not looking good for resident-friendly, bike-friendly outcomes for the Sherwin-Williams project.<br /><br />Let's fight while there's still time to see imaginative proposals that will please more than the developer.Will Lebennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-80862878157170063022013-11-05T09:34:54.437-08:002013-11-05T09:34:54.437-08:00If they are so bad, why do you yahoos keep voting ...If they are so bad, why do you yahoos keep voting them in?<br />I think Nora Davis has been involved in E'ville politics longer than I have been alive, yet you still keep voting the old hag in.<br /><br />No one but yourselves to blame for the sorry state of affairs in your city.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8394711926853801811.post-30158132136730101942013-11-05T08:20:02.160-08:002013-11-05T08:20:02.160-08:00And what a stinker of a development this thing is ...And what a stinker of a development this thing is turning out to be! We have more than enough 1-bedroom apartments for unmarried 20-somethings in town. Would developers and the Council majority just STOP IT ALREADY?! They all put on their campaign literature that they are going to work for family-friendly affordable housing, but we see now that promise was nothing but election year bluster. If they dare to run again, then hang this and the MAZ around their necks so people can see what they really stand for.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com