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I don’t even know where to begin: 1) witness how broken aldermanic privilege is. This is a great example of a project that is perfectly suitable for this lot getting killed, because of one person responding to some people in a meeting of 75 people in a n’hood of 28k. 1/ https://twitter.com/peoplesfabric/status/1336719514088648707
2) it goes to show how broken our community input processes are. They don’t actually gauge what communities think or want and often result in worse outcomes that serve fewer people. The city needs the power to filter out nonsense responses and also pursue larger policy goals 2/
3) it doesn’t help the city doesn’t have effective planning and housing policy and usually defers to aldermen or self-interested but non-representative community groups regardless of their knowledge or credibility. 3/
4) This is also a real shame because there are few areas on the NW side with good transit access and even fewer with a mix of housing types. These n’hoods will not survive without housing diversity to maintain 8-80 and economically diverse populations 4/4
