ChaseAnderson

Excellent job, Jason. I learned a lot I didnt know amd assume there is a whole lot more we still dont know...which suggests that you have a year round series of arena articles in front of you. Why officials dont realize that you can still win amd involve the residents at the same time is the great tragedy of moral collapse and yes, a question to our presiding Council candidates running for office. Cheers!

And Skin has three layers. The two underneath the surface have connective properties.

I dont see how Alderman Johnson could have been so easily blindsided. Hes too seasoned for that. Same with the others who voted against. The version given is too simplistic to be authentic.

Who decided to cut it down? Somebody at Park and Tree took the order. Right? Are they without the guts and moral courage to refuse? Maybe. But who is their boss? And what about our Alderman?

We have a different kind of City Manager but hes just doing the kind of pro development job he was hired to do. Right? Is SCAD to blame? Heaven forbid.

We live in a different time but who stands up for what is right and at what point? The deals are made before they go to Historic Review or MPC. But then there is SCAD, the savior of Savannah according to many who dont know the full history of our preservation movement or even our current ordinances.

I maintain now that we ourselves are to blame. Because we dont stand up to a few new bullies on the block. Instead we read about them and comment on them ad nauseum.

But we dont pack city hall meetings, or Historic Review meetings, or MPC meetings. We remain cowered down out of fear of market share loss or perceived retribution, or job security if we are city employees. Or maybe we just dont care anymore?

We are to blame for the victory of Goliath downtown when all we need are a few polished stones.

Tanya, well summarized. On that level, go after the few bad apples and point out to 2nd District Alderman Durrence and whoever else will listen, that only a handful of residents complain...year after year after year..and a few bad apple tours. And boom...City will take care of it?

We already took care of the bad apples. We did. Not Downtown Neighbors. We did. Not the City who prefer controlled chaos downtown for now.

Thats not to say there wont be more ordinance streamlined, unenforced moving vehicular bars. Or ear damaging mufflers or ordinance violating drunks.

Or pandhandlers or thieves or over the city rooftop noise blasters.

Or decibal shattering back up beeps on more and more construction vehicles.

Or that there even wont be more oversaturated bad apple so called ghost tours for Maxine or anyone else to waste invaluable time stressing over.

Clinton is a good leader and took the lead when no one else did. None of us are perfect and no one's hands are shiny clean. We just need a more enlightened development philosophy that is inclusive of scale, demographics and long range investment in the whole community...as it currently exists along the Bull Street Corridor. And we need to go back to a legal process on projects that simply goes through the approval process step by careful step.

Is is too late to expect that?

The Bull Street Corridor needs enlightened leadership but it seems there are a few players who want it for all for themselves, people who dont know or care to know our history together, painful as it was and still is. People who are possessed by greed. Nothing new.

Is it really more to do with a creative whitewashing of a culturally diverse section of Bull Street? I wonder. But I hold out a faint hope that this is not the case and that wise leadership will prevail.