Long story short: So, we were visiting with our friend and neighbor, Mike, and he told us how the city was planning on buying Regency Trailer Park (a hell hole of a trailer park) and developing the area into mixed Low/Moderate income housing. That evening he forwarded some emails he had sent back and forth with Marge on City Council about the plan. I think this is a BAD idea - a good idea for someone to do it but not the tax payers.
Anyway, I am blown away again by how little communication there is in this town and start
My Huxley - Our Local Online Newspaper. I went around and put up fliers for it and talked to the Librarians, High School English teachers (left teachers a flier and emailed them), and City Hall. While I was at City Hall I also talked to them about the plans for the development of the trailer park. The official line is there is no plan they are just feeling the waters (they ok-ed an environmental study of the land - rubbled-asbestos-filled trailers anyone?). They said they were going to have a press release about it this week and I asked if they would send me a copy of the press release to put in my Online Newspaper. She (psudo city clerk) almost had to pick her jaw off the floor and said yes.
This is the weird part I talked to her at 1:30. At 2:30 John, the City Coordinator, called and talked to me about my concerns and I got some more info about the project. At 4:30, Mike called me and said, "I hear you are a pot stirrer." Marge, on city council, had heard about my concerns and had asked Mike if he had talked to me about the plans. Yup. I find it ironic that for a plan that is so "open" that "everyone" knows about it they were able to trace my source of information and did so in such a speedy manner.
Check out My Huxley! If you lived in town I would make you submit something but no such luck. Can you believe it though? There are three other followers! I don't even know them!
