Post by 29Mossdale on Mar 28, 2007 23:02:24 GMT -8
It’s a very fine line between satire and prejudice, and in my opinion, this posting is prejudice against the mayor, the people of Azusa (especially those living below the cove), and at Azusa the city. Satire is aimed at a folly, but this is squarely aimed at discrediting someone without any factual information to support the comments. In my opinion, that’s prejudice.
Good improvements take time and development will continue to occur in our city, maybe not at the speed some may want, or the development they may want, but it will be the development the people of Azusa will want.
While we saw some visible development during the previous mayor’s office term, like the Starbucks, some of the development, like Rosedale, was approved and the trigger pulled before the previous mayor took office. I am surprised at the lack of development missing from the previous mayor, and some that seem questionable.
For me positive redevelopment would have been a new supermarket, the foothill center in the last stage or physical reconstruction, construction of the gold line station, no more townhomes on Foothill, more libraries and a contract to build a chain store, instead of a worthless letter of intent. For the claim that our previous mayor did so much in one hour, so much was left undone in two years.
A council governs our city and they make decisions on development, and while (in my opinion) we did have a past council that stifled development, the recently replaced mayor seemed to me to willing to approve all development. Unchecked development is just as harmful to a city as no development, and maybe more so.
If the poster of this discussion thread is so impassioned that the elected mayor and council is the wrong choice for Azusa, then start a recall effort, instead of spewing prejudice thinly disguised as satire on this discussion board. I have a request for part II; please no gorillas, it can be misconstrued as a racial overtone.
Good improvements take time and development will continue to occur in our city, maybe not at the speed some may want, or the development they may want, but it will be the development the people of Azusa will want.
While we saw some visible development during the previous mayor’s office term, like the Starbucks, some of the development, like Rosedale, was approved and the trigger pulled before the previous mayor took office. I am surprised at the lack of development missing from the previous mayor, and some that seem questionable.
For me positive redevelopment would have been a new supermarket, the foothill center in the last stage or physical reconstruction, construction of the gold line station, no more townhomes on Foothill, more libraries and a contract to build a chain store, instead of a worthless letter of intent. For the claim that our previous mayor did so much in one hour, so much was left undone in two years.
A council governs our city and they make decisions on development, and while (in my opinion) we did have a past council that stifled development, the recently replaced mayor seemed to me to willing to approve all development. Unchecked development is just as harmful to a city as no development, and maybe more so.
If the poster of this discussion thread is so impassioned that the elected mayor and council is the wrong choice for Azusa, then start a recall effort, instead of spewing prejudice thinly disguised as satire on this discussion board. I have a request for part II; please no gorillas, it can be misconstrued as a racial overtone.
