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“the committee evaluates each project’s design, scale and massing for accessibility, safety and aesthetic merit.” The review process “ensures that each project’
by nemo44x 4y ago
“the committee evaluates each project’s design, scale and massing for accessibility, safety and aesthetic merit.” The review process “ensures that each project’s design is appropriate to its context in the urban environment, and that structures of the highest design quality reflect their civic stature.”
This is a perfect example of why you codify requirements and any review for permitting is as objective as possible. In this case, it's totally subjective and will be abused to get money and other favors from developers that want the project.
This is pure corruption out in the open and they don't even try and hide it. They even mention that they might not need the full $1.7M and they'll find other uses for the money if it doesn't cost as much. This is theft of tax payer money by unaccountable officials.
Any extra money should be returned to tax payers and every single part and labor cost must be documented and justified.
- lkjlk34t34 4y ago
- maerF0x0 4y agoCan you crap in it? Does it get crap on you? Anything that meets the description will do (doo) .
- simplotek 4y ago> Can you crap in it? Does it get crap on you? Anything that meets the description will do (doo) . Not quite. You can spread portable toilets for pennies, or even a shipping container with toilets, but that will make any city look terrible. If you care about making things nice then it becomes necessary to invest resources making things nice which you would otherwise not have to spend if you just drop a portable toilet off the back of a pickup truck.
- dijonman2 4y agoI worked on a public project in the South Bay and the corruption runs deep. Spend 15k on Airbnb in a week for one person? Expense approved. Seems everyone took a cut somehow.
- la64710 4y agoWhy is there no oversight?
- iancmceachern 4y agoWho approved it?
- freemrkt8 4y ago[flagged]
- thescriptkiddie 4y agoPoliticians will happily spend $1 million on consultants and studies to figure out how they should spend $100k on actual infrastructure. It's like it's been decided that money isn't wasted until you spend it on something physical, and they are paralyzed by fear of building a "boondoggle". But paralysis costs money too, in some cases more money than building the wrong thing.