Re: Extended sense of The Commons

Posted by Marcus G. Daniels on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/11-American-Nations-tp7584250p7584775.html

On 1/14/14, 10:26 AM, Steve Smith wrote:

It *was* city funds, specifically for this purpose that brought in the huge yellow machines for a week to rip out the pavement, pour curbs and sidewalks and dump a hundred tons of soil and maybe even lay the sod. 

But it wasn't the Berkeley City council deciding that this particular parking lot would be better off being a park... how could they know that, really?  They knew it when a critical mass (5%, 10%?) of the locals to that neighborhood decided to apply to their program for doing precisely this kind of project. 

Then I'd say that's an example of government working.   It's control mechanism involved tapping the people that knew it best.  Good.   But for goodness sake tap the city infrastructure in making it so.   It's not that that leadership hijacked the resource from the public funds, it's that they didn't waste it.  

Marcus

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