It is noteworthy that Mr. Beeker continues to mention that the inception of the “Road Diet” was when TIFA paid for a “place making” study to decide where to put a bike rack. The seemingly inexorable process began some ten years ago. There was another aborted attempt that was derailed by the Covid hysteria. The current iteration seems to date from December of 2023.
One the most interesting things to come out of the meeting was the MDOT rep not knowing anything about the June deadline and Mr. Beeker admitting that it was an arbitrary internal staff deadline for their own purposes. That was news to me.
In my experience and observations people "rush" things because they believe for whatever reason if they do not it will not get "accomplished", as if anything rushed is truly accomplished (fast is slow, slow is fast any good athlete knows this!).... My muni did this with the new zoning, they picked at it for 5 years then decided it needed to get done and rammed it home, its full of lawyer language no one can understand including them. They are now doing the same thing with our vehicle ordinance, "conveyance" (used easily 45 times over the document) does anyone not named esquire know what that means ever? No, no they don't and that's the point... it can now mean whatever they like... "Vicious"... Maybe delay, delay, ram it home has been found by government types to be effective? People don't repeat ineffective behaviors... generally. The situation with Camp Hope seems to have a similar trajectory? Vogon Kabuki electric slide steps mapped out? It seems a strategy to me not happen stance, it repeats too many times.
It is noteworthy that Mr. Beeker continues to mention that the inception of the “Road Diet” was when TIFA paid for a “place making” study to decide where to put a bike rack. The seemingly inexorable process began some ten years ago. There was another aborted attempt that was derailed by the Covid hysteria. The current iteration seems to date from December of 2023.
One the most interesting things to come out of the meeting was the MDOT rep not knowing anything about the June deadline and Mr. Beeker admitting that it was an arbitrary internal staff deadline for their own purposes. That was news to me.
The repaving of M-99 is scheduled for 2027.
What is the rush?
In my experience and observations people "rush" things because they believe for whatever reason if they do not it will not get "accomplished", as if anything rushed is truly accomplished (fast is slow, slow is fast any good athlete knows this!).... My muni did this with the new zoning, they picked at it for 5 years then decided it needed to get done and rammed it home, its full of lawyer language no one can understand including them. They are now doing the same thing with our vehicle ordinance, "conveyance" (used easily 45 times over the document) does anyone not named esquire know what that means ever? No, no they don't and that's the point... it can now mean whatever they like... "Vicious"... Maybe delay, delay, ram it home has been found by government types to be effective? People don't repeat ineffective behaviors... generally. The situation with Camp Hope seems to have a similar trajectory? Vogon Kabuki electric slide steps mapped out? It seems a strategy to me not happen stance, it repeats too many times.
There are quite a few processes in the community that have community wide effect that are optically undemocratic.