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I, for one, am sick and tired of the piling on by the Charlotte Observer on this issue. I get editors - you hate Ballantyne for not supporting the public housing plan. Would it kill you to tell both sides of the issue?
I, for one, am sick and tired of the piling on by the Charlotte Observer on this issue. I get editors - you hate Ballantyne for not supporting the public housing plan. Would it kill you to tell both sides of the issue?
I'll be writing in about this most recent one... what a load of bull. Yes, let's spend 130K-150K on each apartment unit even though you could buy a townhome or 4 bedroom home (oh yes in my neighborhood) for that same price and it's on the same exact street. I'm so glad this Tommy guy did his research unlike the other reporters...oh wait.... he didn't
He is not being even being coherent. He suggests that Johnny Harris "gave" the land for the roads to make that work. Without those roads, Ballentyne would have not happened. It's a laughable article at best especially the suggestion that Ballentyne must somehow "pay" for this by accepting public housing. Public housing, that was thrown together in some kind of deal with developers that made Ballentyine possible in the first place.
I don't usually bother to read Tommy's nonsense when I even bother to read the Observer now. This is a perfect reason why. It's juvenile and not based on any of the real issues.
He is not being even being coherent. He suggests that Johnny Harris "gave" the land for the roads to make that work. Without those roads, Ballentyne would have not happened. It's a laughable article at best especially the suggestion that Ballentyne must somehow "pay" for this by accepting public housing. Public housing, that was thrown together in some kind of deal with developers that made Ballentyine possible in the first place.
I don't usually bother to read Tommy's nonsense when I even bother to read the Observer now. This is a perfect reason why. It's juvenile and not based on any of the real issues.
Agree.
If anything, this boondoggle with the zoning issue and the particular developers involved in the proposed project actually points out how INEFFICIENT and perhaps even how much enurement (and certainly - INEPTITUDE) has occurred for years in various city/county departments.
I believe a much more pertinent editorial would speak to THOSE issues.
I could get on a roll with that subject . . . if one wishes to talk about how tax money has been poorly commissioned throughout CHARMECK; how infrastructure has been poorly managed; how planners and commissioners and council members have rubberstamped that mismanagement and poor planning . . . etc. etc.
Why doesn't anyone at that newspaper dig into THOSE issues.
What really pisses me off is that the sketchy developer and the CHA are getting away with who knows what since everyone is so mad at Ballantyne residents.
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