Comments on: Local officials due for a Scott Brown moment

By: Michael Aparicio

Michael Aparicio — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 09:06:24 +0000

I’m struck by the way this commentary replaces documented information with emotionally-charged phrases. Please provide a clear, concise, and comprehensive account of how Regency has been “working” for six years. It sounds good, but what have they really done? Please explain the “irony” of the most recent delay given the Regency lawsuit’s actual charges, which include allegations of Brown Act violations? How is the delay proposed by the city attorney as a cure to this allegation “ironic,” especially when even Michael Healy admitted the city attorney was “technically correct”? Please explain how the emotionally loaded term “slow growth majority” helps readers understand the majority’s response to the project FEIR, with its three unavoidable significant impacts and the report’s negligence of the project’s impact on East D st.? Please explain which council proposals are best described as placing “demand after demand”? I encourage Mr. Bollinger to clarify how he believes Petaluma should best deal with this project’s expected impacts as the city attempts to promote more jobs and increase city revenue. But, a commentary that neglects the project’s basic issues and relies on such vaguely used, emotionally-loaded phrases performs an embarrassing disservice to our community.

By: Michael Aparicio

Michael Aparicio — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:46:34 +0000

I’m struck by the way this commentary replaces documented information with emotionally-charged phrases. Please provide a clear, concise, and comprehensive account of how Regency has been “working” for six years. It sounds good, but what have they really done? Please explain the “irony” of the most recent delay given the Regency lawsuit’s actually charges, which include allegations of Brown Act violations? How is the delay proposed by the city attorney as a cure to this allegation “ironic,” especially when even Michael Healy admitted the city attorney was “technically correct”? Please explain how the emotionally loaded term “slow growth majority” helps readers understand the majority’s response to the project FEIR, with its three unavoidable significant impacts and the report’s negligence of the project’s impact on East D st.? Please explain which council proposals are best described as placing “demand after demand”? I encourage Mr. Bollinger to clarify how he believes Petaluma should best deal with this project’s expected impacts as the city attempts to promote more jobs and increase city revenue. But, a commentary that neglects the project’s basic issues and relies on such vaguely used, emotionally-loaded phrases performs an embarrassing disservice to our community.